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Networks of weather stations throughout the U.S. provide data that's crucial for emergency responders, farmers and researchers but funding for them is precarious.

For the first time ever, more people in the United Kingdom watched Netflix than the venerated BBC One television channel.

A historic portrait of George Washington is being auctioned off next month. It's among the paintings that inspired the first president's image on the $1 bill, and it has a colorful past.

In Georgia, Secretary of State Brian Kemp was the GOP gubernatorial candidate, who went on to victory. Democrats viewed many of his office's policies as attempts at voter suppression.

Mac Traynham is teaching Ashlee Watkins from Australia about the old time traditional music of Southwest Virginia.

She's a spider's spider — sophisticated, pretty (by her own account), authoritarian — and she says something profound about love and commitment. Melissa Block looks at the heroine of Charlotte's Web.

A new book from the original MTV VJs underscores how revolutionary spinning records on television wasn't.

The Oscar-winning actor is seeking out the next generation of filmmakers because, he says, many established directors have "already made up their minds about me." Cage's new movie is Dream Scenario.

Archaeologists unearthed 35 bottles of cherries from the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon. The 250-year-old fruits, many still intact, can shed new light on those who lived and worked there.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks legal analyst Sarah Isgur for her reaction to the secret recordings of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito and his wife.