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Wisdom is known to be at least 68 years old and nests each year at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. She survived a tsunami and is believed to have laid nearly 40 eggs over her life.

There were only an estimated seven red wolves left in the wild when a coalition of conservation organizations decided to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

An animal not seen in Ohio in over a century, the fisher, has been spotted on a local wildlife camera. The sighting has raised hopes that the native mammal is naturally returning to the state.

The New York Times has published leaked 1995 tax documents from Donald Trump that show a loss of $916 million that year. Times reporter Susanne Craig received those documents in the mail last month.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on a Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll that finds more Americans than ever support public education, and reforming rather than changing the system. The annual poll finds for the first time that low funding for schools is listed as the number one problem. Poll respondents of both parties say that the federal government should give schools more money without no strings attached. They see Democrats as more friendly to public schools than Republicans in general, but they see Al Gore and George W. Bush as equally good for public schools.

Delegates to a United Nations wildlife conference have agreed to ease a 13-year-old global ban on ivory trading. The decision is a victory for southern African nations, but conservationists see it as a defeat for elephants. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

The Republican leadership has pulled a provision to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge out of a House budget bill in an effort to secure support for passage. But opponents are seeking a written guarantee the measure won't reappear in the conference report.

Commentator Troy says public education in the U.S. is unfairly criticised by many. They aren't perfect, but public schools in the U.S. are enourmously successful against some heavy societal odds---good public schools just never seem to get the same attention as the bad ones.

Two Republican congressmen lashed out at Attorney General Janet Reno today for her handling of the 1993 FBI assault on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas. Representatives Bill McCollum and Bill Zeliff, the co-chairmen of a special committee looking into the incident, say President Clinton should have accepted Reno's resignation. She offered to leave after the confrontation that ended in a fire and dozens of deaths. NPR's Chitra Ragavan says the co-chairmen released their conclusions without a corroborating report and without consulting with committee Democrats. The Democrats say the criticism of Reno is strictly politics.

In the 1800s, Eggner’s Ferry consisted of a small platform propelled by a blind mule hitched to a sweep pole. Now, in place of a ferry, a bridge stands,…