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Encore performance of a song by NPR's Adam Cole about Lonesome George, celebrity tortoise. This story originally aired Jan. 11, 2015 on All Things Considered.

The killing of nine people at a historic black church has ignited a debate over the flag, which is flying at full mast at the statehouse.

We revisit Robin Young's interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer on the occasion of his 75th birthday, 15 years ago.

Golf has a new star. The 21-year-old also won the Master's in April, the youngest to do so since 1922.

It has been 17 days since Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. The New York Times reports the men were in the cabin within the past 48 hours.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with South Carolina State Rep. Doug Brannon, who says he wants to fast-track a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds.

NPR's Melissa Block interviews Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy on the second anniversary of the president's Climate Action Plan.

"Local" food makes up a small fraction of what Americans eat. But a recent study argues that 90 percent of people living in cities could be fed with food grown within 100 miles.

After a massacre at a church in Charleston, South Carolina's governor called for the Confederate flag to be removed from the grounds of the state Capitol. The flag has a long and divisive history.

More than 1,400 pharmacies billed for questionable prescriptions last year, according to the inspector general at Health and Human Services. That includes prescriptions for commonly abused opioids.