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A Senate committee demands that the Pentagon release information explaining its rationale for the proposed closing of dozens of military bases across the country. We look at how one Connecticut community is responding to the Pentagon's long-term base-closure strategy.

For years, the New Zealand kakapo had no need to fly — the bird's only predators were in the sky — but then came human settlers and, with them, an invasive weasel-like predator. Author William Stolzenburg explores exotic island species' vulnerability to newcomers in Rat Island.

Several days after Ukraine said nine planes were destroyed at a Russian air base in Crimea, nobody has publicly claimed responsibility for it — but speculation abounds.

See what albums NPR listeners picked in our year-end poll for the best music of 2013.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Morning Edition's poet-in-resident Kwame Alexander about his new Young Adult book: The Door of No Return.

Americans imagine themselves creatures of the frontier, with a character formed by the country's wide, open, untamed spaces. But in The Fabric of America, British writer Andro Linklater takes a different view.

The DJs at public radio stations listen to a lot of songs every day. Download five of their recent favorites, including songs from The Milk Carton Kids, Cayucas, Chance the Rapper, Miranda Dodson and Katie Mullins.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, who is going to be the first Native woman in space.

Departures across the U.S. were halted for two hours Wednesday morning after the agency's system for alerting pilots and airports of real-time hazards went dark, frustrating thousands of travelers.

Many Democrats defended the Biden administration's cautious approach. But lawmakers of both parties urged the president to address the nation.