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Hours after launching a Kickstarter campaign to revive a TV show that made horrible movies enjoyable, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson raised a quarter of his $2 million goal.

Using a steam cleaner, workers have begun to melt an estimated 1 million pieces of gum off the brick wall near Pike Place Market.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to the director and co-founder of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a group of activists who use social media to document atrocities committed by ISIS.

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve is home to more than 40 native species of orchids; many more were lost to poaching and habitat destruction. Some of those blooms can still be found in Cuba and may return.

When African-American players on the University of Missouri's football team called for a boycott of games, it was the latest moment in a long history of players taking a stand for civil rights.

Sila Luis could not hire a lawyer to defend her in court because her adversaries had succeeded in having her financial assets frozen.

Russia is facing a demographic crisis. Some women are having more babies, but there are fewer mothers overall. The country may face worse economic problems and challenges staffing its armed forces.

A shortage of line workers raises the question: How do you entice millennials into tough electric utility work, when "you can't get a kid to lick a stamp, much less climb a pole" these days?

Shared Hope International, which tracks how many states have passed laws against trafficking, finds many states are doing better at stopping the practice than when the first report was issued in 2011.

President Obama is expected to send Congress a plan soon for how to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While Congress is expected to oppose him, advocates say that might not matter.