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When scientists first started counting the nests of green sea turtles in one area in the 1980s, they found fewer than 40 nests. In their last check, they counted almost 12,000.

By David Washburnhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkms/local-wkms-985365.mp3Kentucky – Bass fishing was good up until a couple of days…

White House pool reports have offered a revelatory, often hilarious glimpse into the private workings of the administration for years. NPR's White House correspondent, Don Gonyea, talks with other reporters about their time in the pool and the journalistic issues involved.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Shermichael Singleton, Republican political consultant and contributing host of Vox's Consider It, about his reaction to the end of the Mueller investigation.

Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, for a preview of what Friday's jobs report is likely to say about the U.S. economy. The stock market is setting records and though profits are up, wages are stagnant.

Though the nation's unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in February, employers actually cut payrolls by a net 63,000 jobs. The rate fell because so many people decided to stop looking for work — a new sign of weakness in the economy.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former Watergate assistant prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks what answers she's expecting from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

The government released figures Monday showing that a record number of Americans faced food insecurity in 2008. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said 49 million people lack the access to food that they need.

One day before the Sept. 11 commission's report becomes public, the body's leaders brief members of Congress and key members of President Bush's staff. Commissioners gave Congress advance word of some of their recommendations, but not an advance look at the entire report. NPR's David Welna reports.