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It's not just homesteaders, hipsters and foodies getting into the hands-on pursuit. The butter-churning craze is part of a larger, do-it-yourself food movement that includes everything from canning, to making homemade bitters, a food writer says.

Henna, or mehndi, is a type of temporary tattoo usually used in India, Africa, and the Middle East. Over the past few years, henna has become more popular…

Reverend Derek McCoy fought hard against the legalization of same-sex marriage, calling it a morality issue. He speaks to host Michel Martin about how his congregation feels about the rulings and what it plans to do next.

Age of Champions is a documentary about athletes who, in their golden years, compete at the National Senior Olympics. Michel Martin speaks to the film's producer, Keith Ochwat, and John Tatum, a 94-year-old swimmer.

The bulk of Friedberger's work thus far has been recorded with her brother, Matthew, under the name The Fiery Furnaces. For this new solo album, her second, she's written with a new collaborator in singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding.

While most of the news about elephants out of Africa concerns poaching and falling numbers, South Africa has the opposite problem. Its elephant populations have grown greater than the country can manage.

Critic Alan Cheuse has a review of Charlie Huston's new book, Skinner.

By some estimates, half of the U.S. government's intelligence spending goes to private contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton. Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, says he took a job at Booz Allen because he saw it as the best place to gather the intelligence secrets he wanted to expose. Some members of Congress say the episode underscores the need for greater oversight of intelligence contractors and they are calling for hearings into the matter.

After Asiana Flight 214's crash-landing in San Francisco, many weekend travelers were left stranded across the country. But the way airlines route such passengers to their destinations isn't based on how long they have been stranded, but rather on how frequently they fly and their "value" to the airline.