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  • The Psychological Dimension Behind Climate Negotiations
    Ahead of the climate talks in Paris, researchers stress the importance of psychological research. Studies indicate countries could walk away from a deal even if it is in their best effort to agree.
  • Golden State Warriors Are Off To A Hot Start; Could Set NBA Record
    The 15-0 Golden State Warriors could set a record for most consecutive wins to start a season, if they beat the LA Lakers Tuesday. Linda Wertheimer talks to Diamond Leung of the San Jose Mercury News.
  • Volunteers learn how to handle balloons for the upcoming Thanksgiving Day parade in Detroit.
    Up, Up And Away: Balloon School For Parade Newbies
    Balloons are a mainstay of Thanksgiving Day parades across the nation. It takes skill, strength and teamwork to control those helium-filled bags of fun — that's exactly what balloon school is for.
  • The Ayalet HaShahar synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Giv'at Ze'ev was built in the late 1990s. After years of legal battles, Israel's highest court ruled the synagogue, built on privately owned Palestinian land, had to be taken down. A new, temporary synagogue went up overnight, just a block away.
    In The West Bank, A Synagogue Comes Down
    In a case that lasted years, Israel's highest court ordered removal of a synagogue built on Palestinian land. But the case was complicated by the government's $1.3 million payout to Jewish settlers.
  • Workers sort potatoes in the field, collecting small and large ones in different buckets. Each bucket weighs 30 pounds or so. A worker will shoulder that bucket and dump it into a flatbed truck 400 to 500 times a day. It's a daily load of 6 or 7 tons of sweet potatoes.
    Behind Your Holiday Sweet Potato Dish, Hard Work In The Fields
    More than half of America's sweet potatoes were lifted by hand from the soil of North Carolina. It's some of the most back-breaking farm work to be found, and migrant laborers do most of it.
  • 100-Year-Old Piece Of Wedding Cake Found In Attic
    Ron Warninger of Yakima, Wash., recently discovered part of his grandparents' wedding cake — saved since 1915. He says the fancy white icing could be a difficult chew — it's petrified.
  • Americans Weigh In On Excitement
    Which of these events is the most exciting: Super Bowl, Iowa caucuses or the new Star Wars movie? A Bloomberg Politics poll says it's the Super Bowl followed by the Iowa caucuses.
  • WestSouthwest November 30, 2015
    On WestSouthwest, WMUK reporter Robbie Feinberg's series on the changing lives of migrant workers in Michigan. The three-part series originally aired in…
  • The view from Frank Wolf's property on Woods Lake. Wolf was president of the Woods Lake Association when the detention wall was put in to clean up the lake.
    Road Salt Contaminating Drinking Water, Urban Lakes
    Last year, the Michigan Department of Transportation used more than 650,000 tons of salt on the state’s roads. That’s 130 pounds per person. Eventually,…
  • Blue Origin Announces Successful Launch, Landing Of Rocket
    Commercial space startup Blue Origin announced Tuesday the successful launch and landing of one of its rockets. NPR explores what the success means for space travel.
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