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Once the stuff of high-end cuisine, mutton consumption tanked thanks to competition from the cattle industry and GIs fed up with rations. Fans say it's time to re-embrace this underappreciated meat.

Mississippi and Louisiana were hardest hit by the storms that were part of a band of severe weather stretching across the entire southeast of the country.

"I cannot say the happiness I have," the husband of a woman rescued from the rubble told The Associated Press. He says she is eight months pregnant. The collapse killed some three dozen people.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports from the United Nations that Iraq 's speaker of parliament today rejected a UN offer to allow Iraq to sell oil to finance the purchase of emergency humanitarian supplies. Ever since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq has been barred from selling its oil on the world market. The embargo was imposed by the United Nations, and once the Gulf War ended, it stayed in place...leverage to force Iraqi compliance with Security Council resolutions regarding weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions have hurt the Iraqi people, and yesterday, the U.N. Council told Iraq it could sell two billion dollars worth of oil to help finance purchases of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies. Today, Iraq rejected the U.N. move, and launched a new anti-American propaganda drive.

When KUOW announced that it would purchase KPLU, it was met with shock and anger by members of the KPLU advisory board.

Jeffrey Piccolo's wife died after eating at a Disney World restaurant. Disney wanted his claims handled out of court based on the terms of his years-old Disney+ trial, but reversed its position.

The City of San Antonio is hosting a series of virtual meetings in May to get public input about how its police department should respond to 911 calls, with the goal of finding possible “alternative responses” for certain kinds of calls, such as those that are considered low priority or involve an individual experiencing a mental health crisis or homelessness.

Hollywood blockbusters usually do well in China. But last year, Lost in Thailand, a scrappy, slapstick comedy that cost less than $5 million to make, raked in $200 million in just seven weeks. It's now the highest-grossing Chinese film ever. It begins a limited run in the U.S. on Friday.