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The 4th of July traditional hotdog eating contest got us thinking about why food and the holiday are so intertwined. Some experts have gone deep on the subject of competitive eating.

The U.S. is forecast to add a lot less power from renewables than analysts previously expected. The potential slowdown comes as electricity demand is rising faster than it has in decades.

In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.

People in China protest the government's COVID lockdown. Democrats rush to pass bills before Republicans take over the House. Voting starts in Georgia in a runoff for the final unresolved Senate seat.

Here's how one professor holds on to the pacifism and silent meditation espoused by Quakers when the world feels like it's on fire.

Hamas says it wants to extend the truce with Israel. Annual climate negotiations begin this week in Dubai. There are memorial services this week for former first lady Rosalynn Carter.

Forty years ago this week, the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade established the right to an abortion. But today, laws vary widely from state to state. Host Michel Martin sits down with the ladies of the Beauty Shop to talk about the history of the case, and where abortion rights law might end up in the next forty years.

A new Pew poll finds that while there are still two major parties in America, there are stark divisions within each.