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Trump pitches affordability on a national tour to combat voter frustration. And, Minnesota federal prosecutors resign after DOJ pressure to probe Renee Macklin Good's widow.

The new book Blackfish City tells of a near future that's both dystopian and utopian all at once. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Sam J. Miller about his story and about the influence of his father.

Summer's coming to an end, and whether for health or ethical reasons, more people are flipping veggie burgers — which have come a long way since the sanitarium-created concoctions of the 19th century.

Oregon will be the second state to pass an economywide system to regulate carbon emissions. Critics say a similar program in California has not had much impact.

Climate change has brought erratic rainfall and poor harvests to Mexico's Yucatán peninsula, forcing local Mayan farmers to modernize their centuries-old farming practices.

The Trump administration is withdrawing from 66 global groups, including U.N. entities that focus on climate and health issues.

Our year-long series visits a man obsessed with the sound of TV. Phil Gries started recording audio from his television set in the 1950s. He still has over 10-thousand items, and has turned his hobby into a business -- supplying audio from old TV shows to other collectors and museums. He says he was motivated by the ethereal nature of live TV to preserve broadcasts of all sorts.

Wilt Chamberlain, a seven-foot-tall black man in a white man's NBA, changed professional basketball forever in one momentous night when he scored 100 points. Author Gary M. Pomerantz profiles a natural athlete with be-bop cool.

Amy Tardif of member station WGCU reports from Fort Myers, Florida on the new musical composition, Voice of the Everglades, by Steve Heitzig. It's a musical tribute to the late activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, one of the leaders in the movement to save 'The River of Grass.' Tardif talks to Heitzeg, as well as author Peter Mathieson, and singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Yesterday President Clinton signed the Everglades Restoration Bill, a 30-year, eight-billion dollar program to restore the region's natural water flow, which has been diverted for residential development and farming. (8:50)

The 16-member team will begin the study on Monday. The research, which will use unclassified data, will lead to a report that will be made available to the public next year.