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NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell about debris from China's satellite launches crashing uncontrolled back to earth.

South Asia's "economic miracle" needs help from the International Monetary Fund. High fuel prices mean rolling blackouts and a loss of productivity at garment factories — once an engine of growth.

Tornadoes damaged homes, briefly trapped people in a grocery store and ripped the roof off an apartment complex in Mississippi. Two people died as a tree crunched their mobile home in Alabama.

The largest freight rail union has voted to reject the contract agreement brokered by the Biden administration. The two sides return to the bargaining table, but the possibility of a strike remains.

President Biden is spending Thanksgiving with family in Nantucket. He has said he will talk with his family over the holidays about whether to act on his intention to run again in 2024.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Democratic Virginia state Senator L Louise Lucas about the shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake that killed five people.

In the area, berry fields have become small lakes, leaving workers without jobs, food and, in some cases, housing.

A Gallup poll shows Americans are delaying medical care because of rising inflation and housing costs. In Florida, the difficult tradeoffs become clear at a health fair for the uninsured.

At the University of Maryland, students learn the business and science of raising lambs through the popular Sheep Management class.

Austin Carter speaks to Alissa Keller, executive director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, about her latest historical artifact featured in her "Snapshots in Time" column for the Hoptown Chronicle.