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Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep talks to Americans about how their lives have changed under President Obama. Here's what he heard from a group of travelers he met in Paducah, Kentucky.

More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened but there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, such as the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.

In a long-running career, Hurt was nominated for an Academy Award three times, winning for 1985's Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Peru's close presidential race features a leftist who opposes eradication of Peru's coca crop, a former congresswoman who would like to codify trade with the United States and a former president. Voters head to the polls on Sunday.

For every parent who warns that going out in chilly weather with no coat will make you sick, there's a kid who won't bundle up. A look at why kids hate coats, and whether there is a link between being cold and catching cold.

The residents of Pripyat were evacuated after the catastropic accident at Chernobyl. Officially, they are banned from living in the exclusion zone around the plant. But some residents snuck back into the ghost town and have resisted pressure to leave ever since.

German scientists say cells from the testes of male mice can behave like embryonic stem cells. If the same holds true in humans, it could perhaps provide a controversy-free source of versatile cells for use in treating disease.

Workers in London warily return to the city's transportation system following Thursday's terrorist bombings. The normally packed double-decker buses carried far fewer passengers than normal -- as was the case with subway trains.

Midwest Farmers are still cleaning up from record floods in March. The work may delay or even prevent planting for some, which will have ripple effects throughout the U.S. agriculture sector.

The FBI says it recovered nothing of value at the site in Pennsylvania. But treasure hunters who led agents there think the FBI found tons of gold and cut them out of a finder's fee.