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A Chinese state-owned operator took control of a port on a 99-year lease after Sri Lanka defaulted on its loans. An adviser to Sri Lanka's president said the government wants China to "give it back."

Twelve years after a revolution that overthrew a dictator Tunisians are leaving the country in droves in the midst of a socio-economic crisis and political instability.

Sarah Posner, a reporter with The Nation's Investigative Fund, talks about how the Steve Bannon-Jeff Sessions-Mike Pence nexus is influencing President Trump's policies.

Christina Cala is a producer for Code Switch. Before that, she was at the TED Radio Hour where she piloted two new episode formats — the curator chat and the long interview. She's also reported on a movement to preserve African American cultural sites in Birmingham and followed youth climate activists in New York City.

Cheryl Corley is NPR’s Midwest Bureau Chief and is based in Chicago.

Senate President Peter Courtney elected not to bring the relatively new committee back for the 2020 session, as voters prepare to vote on campaign finance limits.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the Environmental Protection Agency's experimental attempt to cover an undersea deposit of toxic DDT off the coast of California, with a fresh layer of sediment. An estimated 110 Tons of the poisonous pesticide is located on 17 square miles of ocean floor. Between 1947 and 1971, Montrose Chemical dumped the DDT into the sewer system, which discharged it into the ocean.

Spain's military sends reinforcements to the country's northwest coast to help clean up oil from the sunken tanker Prestige. Despite assurances by the Spanish government that the oil would freeze in the hull, a research sub confirms the oil is streaming out. Hear Jerome Socolovsky.

In part two of our series on the "Megatransect", an attempt by wildlife biologist Mike Fay to walk from the center of Africa to its eastern coast, Fay describes his journey through the Congo Basin. The region is filled with dense jungles and swaps. And it harbors some of the deadliest diseases known to man. Through his recorded field diary, Fay relates the difficulty his team faced as it trekked through a part of the world no human has seen in more than a century. (8:49

Host Bob Edwards talks to Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation in Washington. They discuss the daring airlift of a sick American doctor, who was working at a research station at the South Pole. A small plane carried Dr. Ronald Shemenski across Antarctica to a British research center near the coast of the continent. After resting overnight, the crew will take Dr. Shemenski to Chile today where he'll be treated for gall stones.