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A video online shows the ants forming a life raft out of their own bodies. National Geographic says the ants do this to protect themselves and their eggs when the water rises.

The hot and dry weather in Oregon continues to fuel wildfires. A new fire was reported over the 4th of July weekend.The Niagara Fire is burning on 70…

Indiana leads the nation in methamphetamine lab seizures. Hundreds of homes are contaminated with dangerous chemicals. But people aren't always told the house they're buying is contaminated.

The SpaceX team just lost it after one of their rockets launched satellites to space and then landed back on Earth upright.

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans thinks “Homeland” might be one of the most overlooked TV series rebounds in 2015.

Nguyen and his family fled their village in South Vietnam in 1975. He won the Pulitzer Prize this year for his spy novel The Sympathizer. Originally broadcast May 17, 2016.

Actor James McDaniel is Lieutenant Arthur Fancy on NYPD Blue. McDaniel has appeared in numerous television, film and theater productions, including the films Strictly Business, Malcolm X, and Alice. He's also received the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in the Broadway play, Six Degrees of Separation. McDaniel has appeared on the television shows Kate and Allie, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and Civil Wars. (REBROADCAST from 12

The stars of the 1980s TV series Cagney & Lacey Sharon Gless (Christine Cagney) and Tyne Daly (Mary Beth Lacy). The two played New York City Police detectives. C&L was the first TV crime show in which the two central characters were female. The TV series won 14 Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award. Tyne Daly is currently starring in the CBS series Judging Amy. (REBROADCAST from 4

Professor Michael A. Bellesiles on the history of gun culture in America. His new book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture looks at our country's obsession with guns. Historically, he says it began around the civil war. Before that, there was virtually no access to firearms. His research refutes the conventional lore that Colonial families were armed, and that the gun was the symbol of the frontier. Bellesiles is a Colonial historian at Emory University, and the Director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence.

Writer Armistead Maupin, creator of the award winning newspaper serial turned TV series Tales of the City. Maupin's new book The Night Listener (Harper Collins, 2000) is his first novel in eight years. It examines the relationship that grows between a cult writer and one of his younger radio fans; critics have noted the autobiographical subtext to the story. Maupin won the 1998 Peabody Award for his work in television and has written several novels and two collections of essays. He lives in San Francisco.