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President Biden has pledged to choose a Black woman to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court — and the White House is looking at a broad list of potential candidates.

We take a look at the colorful Pakistani practice of turning big transport trucks into wildly bright works of art.

It’s unclear if Lisa Leisy is still serving as Power County Chair for Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s gubernatorial run after she tweeted, then deleted that she “doesn’t support” a Hershey’s chocolate commercial featuring a Black family.

Swarms of desert locusts many miles long descended on West Africa this summer and fall -- the worst invasion of these voracious pests in more than 15 years.

Oliver Nelson began his career playing with the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra and St. Louis big bands. In a 1961 jam session, Nelson was joined by Eric Dolphy, Roy Haynes, Bill Evans, Oliver Nelson, Paul Chambers and Freddie Hubbard. The result was one of the great classics of the blues, The Blues and the Abstract Truth.

More than 36,000 people say their employers cheated them out of pay. The state agency tasked with probing their cases is backlogged and underfunded. (Story first aired on ATC on June 21, 2022.)

Federal oil and gas drilling lease sales on public land resumed in June — the first since President Biden took office. His administration had paused quarterly sales because of environmental concerns.

President Trump will visit Poland on Wednesday. Although Trump is unpopular in much of Europe, he can expect a warm welcome in Warsaw. The White House says Poland is a potential energy partner.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report on how the world's oceans and ice are affected by climate change. Sea level rise is accelerating as is ocean warming.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Wryn about their Tiny Desk Contest entries and their forthcoming album.