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New homes under construction in the desert west of Phoenix.

Here's why Arizona says it can keep growing despite historic megadrought

Arizona has some of the lowest priority rights to the river water of any of the seven basin states.
The bric-a-brac-stacked shelves of the Tiny Desk.

Want to play your own Tiny Desk concert? The 2023 Contest is now open for entries

The Tiny Desk Contest, NPR Music's annual search for the next great undiscovered artist, is back!
Today's Guests: Linda Varela and Robert Loomis

Linda Varela and Robert Loomis

Episode 1: From February 3, 2023
These screenshots show deployed service members that Wove worked with to design engagement rings while they are away from home. The rings in the photos are replicas that the service members received so they would have a sense of what the actual ones would be like.

These combat vets want to help you design the perfect engagement ring

When Andrew Wolgemuth served in Afghanistan, his comrades in his special operations platoon came to depend on him for a particular skill set and base of knowledge: diamond engagement rings.
United States Capitol Building

WATCH LIVE: President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address

Tuesday at 7pm
Author Scott Neuman's sailboat, Symbiosis, on passage between St. Lucia and Martinique in 2017.

My wife and I quit our jobs to sail the Caribbean

There's another universe not far from land.
In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The telescope is designed to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects with sharper focus.

NASA's Webb telescope has discovered its first exoplanet

An exoplanet is any planet that is outside of our solar system
President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, in the Mariinskyi Palace, Kyiv on February 2, 2022.

WATCH LIVE: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy visits Washington to speak with Biden, address Congress

Watch Ukrainian President Zelenskyy address Congress beginning at 5:30pm.
Andy Berry approaches one of his cows at his farm in New Hebron, Miss., on Dec. 16, 2022.

There's a shortage of vets to treat farm animals. Pandemic pets are partly to blame

For decades, farmers have endured a shortage of rural veterinarians, but the problem is now at an all-time high.
United States Capitol Building

Watch Live: January 6 Committee Hearings -The Final Report

MONDAY at 11 a.m.
The mountain lion known as P-22, photographed in November 2014 in the Griffith Park area near downtown Los Angeles, is undergoing health evaluations after being captured on Monday.

Hollywood's famous, aging mountain lion has been captured by authorities. Now what?

A famous mountain lion known as the "Hollywood Cat" is being evaluated by wildlife officials after exhibiting signs of distress, including killing a leashed dog in a residential neighborhood.
Chelsea Banning watched in disbelief as authors like Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood told her of their experiences with low turnout at book signing events.

A new writer tweeted about a low book signing turnout, and famous authors commiserated

Nearly 40 people had RSVP'd to Chelsea Banning's first official book signing at an Ohio bookstore on Saturday.
A flute saved from a fire represents a spiritual connection to music.

We asked, you answered: What precious object is part of your family history?

What's one precious belonging you brought along on your journey to remind you of home?

Watch Live: Biden speaks as control of House, Senate remains up in the air

WEDNESDAY at 2

NPR Election Coverage Liveblog

Read and listen to live coverage from the NPR newsroom of the 2022 midterm elections.
William Simpson with a 2-year-old Appaloosa colt near the Soda Mountain Wilderness area, straddling the Oregon and California border, in July 2022.

Preventing wildfire with the Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Like a growing number of people in the American West, naturalist William Simpson is intimately familiar with wildfire.

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