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Review: Welcome back, 'Star Trek'

The Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds recaptures the sentiment of the original show — a return to a diverse, charismatic group of explorers who prove the value of peace among the stars.

Constructed four generations ago, the massive dam at El Capitan Reservoir in Lakeside, Calif., is capable of storing over 36 billion gallons of water — enough to supply every resident in San Diego for most of a year. Today, it's three-quarters empty — intentionally kept low because of concerns it could fail under the strain of too much water.

More than 2,200 dams are in poor condition, posing danger to communities

Long-deferred maintenance, a changing climate and the construction of homes, businesses and highways below previously remote dams are all contributing to the soaring numbers.

North High School's new mariachi band rehearsed for their first performance on Tuesday.

A Sioux City high school becomes the latest school to offer a mariachi band

North High School will make its debut mariachi performance tonight. It’s part of a growing number of Iowa schools embracing the traditional Mexican music programming.

Former U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer talked with IPR before speaking at a local Democratic party event at Wolfey's Wapsi Outback in Quasqueton, Iowa on April 29, 2022. Finkenauer, who also served in the Iowa House, lives in Cedar Rapids and is one of three Democrats running in hopes to face Republican. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley in November.

U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer says Democrats have the right policies and it's about getting them in front of voters

IPR Morning Edition host Clay Masters sits down with another one of the Democratic U.S. Senate candidates for a conversation about federal college loan forgiveness, climate change and connecting with rural voters.

Smoke rises above the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol on April 29, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine.

How a massive steel plant became the center of Ukraine's resistance in Mariupol

The final battle for Mariupol is taking place inside the Azovstal steel plant, a massive coastal complex in the besieged city. Hundreds of civilians are still trapped inside, officials say.

Researchers estimate there are only about 10 vaquita porpoises still living in Mexico's Gulf of California.

Scientists say endangered porpoise isn't doomed — so long as humans stop killing them

Fishing in the Gulf of California has nearly wiped out the vaquita marina. But a new genetic analysis offers hope for the engandered porpoise: the species can make a comeback, if humans protect it.

New research could prompt schools to reexamine their investment in Reading Recovery, one of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs.

Reading Recovery is one of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs for young children. A new study questions its long-term impact.

Journalist says Britain has become a safe deposit box for oligarchs' ill-gotten gains

Butler to the Word author Oliver Bullough says the UK has developed a system of bankers, lawyers, accountants and PR managers who work to help Russian kleptocrats hide their wealth.

Kidd Creole, the rapper whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York on Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested on a murder charge.

The rapper Kidd Creole is sentenced to 16 years over a fatal stabbing

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

Abortion-rights supporters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

These 3 Supreme Court decisions could be at risk after Roe v. Wade was overturned

The Supreme Court ruling on Friday says it is limited to abortion, but President Biden and advocates say same-sex marriage and contraception cases could also be at risk.

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