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Huge snowstorms hit the West in February and in places like the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is well above average. Reservoir operators and farmers are watching the new snowpack forecast data closely.

The United Methodist Church votes to maintain a ban on gay clergy and gay marriage. Is a schism inevitable? We put that to a roundtable of Methodist voices.

Some employers are offering benefits that pay down student loans. They say it's a popular way to recruit younger workers who are struggling with college debt.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rick Baedeker, executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, about the situation at the Santa Anita racetrack, where 21 horses died this season.

Democrats say they plan to follow through on the campaign pledges to protect health care and close the gender pay gap. With the shutdown over, they plan to push legislation and prove they can govern.

USA Gymnastics has hired a new CEO: the embattled organization's fourth leader in the past two years. The organization is trying to get beyond a widening sexual abuse scandal.

Steve Inskeep talks to ex-Energy Secretary Bill Richardson about a House Democrats' report detailing how Trump administration officials apparently sought to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.

Virginia's governor and attorney general face calls to resign amid revelations they appeared in blackface decades ago. That's reviving a conversation around the history of blackface in our culture.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll talk with Daniel Jones, editor of the New York Times column Modern Love. A lot has changed since it debuted in 2004.

The former Obama AG will decide whether he's running in the next two weeks. The speech he plans to give certainly sounds like the building blocks of a possible campaign to challenge President Trump.