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New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi was recently embedded with Iraqi troops fighting to liberate western Mosul from ISIS. She reports that the Islamic State looks "more fierce than ever."

Scott Simon talks with historian Matt Price, whose group holds "hack-a-thons" to preserve scientific information. Activists fear environmental data will be harder to find under the new administration.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with CeCe Sieffert of the International Rhino Foundation about the poaching attack that occurred in a zoo outside Paris in which a white rhino was killed for its horn.

Monk Dreams, Hallucinations and Nightmares, by the Finish-born pianist and composer, is a meditation on Thelonious Monk's "odd but catchy melodies," says jazz critic Kevin Whitehead.

Leonardo Padura's new novel opens in 1939, when a ship carrying Jewish refugees is turned away from Cuba. Critic Maureen Corrigan says Heretics "spans and defies literary categories."

NPR's YouTube channel, "Skunk Bear," answers science questions in surprising, artsy videos. What mystery should they tackle next?

No need to worry about whether the most hilarious BBC live shot ever has caused trouble, after the children of South Korea expert Robert Kelly infiltrated his TV appearance.

Voters in the Netherlands are going to the polls after an election campaign dominated by issues of identity and immigration. It's seen as a potential test of the power of populism in Europe.

The profanity-prone president and his country's Catholic Church are at loggerheads, mostly over Duterte's war on drugs, which has killed more than 7,500 people in less than a year.

Researchers surveyed more than 33,000 community college students and found that a greater number are going without food and housing than previously thought.