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This year's nominations are in and there are few surprises.

India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, as one reporter's continuing journey down the Ganges River reveals.

English professor Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate. Poetry, she says, is something people can turn to for celebrating joys and mourning losses.

The nation's unemployment rate is at its the highest level since 1983. The jobless rate for February stands at 8.1 percent after employers slashed 651,000 jobs. Both figures were worse than what analysts had expected. Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost 4.4 million jobs.

One listener objected to what he heard in the report about the 1947 partition of India.

Kathy Lloyd of Pittsfield, Mass., submitted this Tomato Pie recipe in NPR's "How Low Can You Go" family supper challenge. She says it was her favorite dish growing up and she always asked for it for her birthday. The key? Fresh tomatoes and the gooey crust.

Listeners sent in their thoughts in response to a review of the highs and lows of the Bush presidency.

Unlike many Americans, Chinese consumers are not fans of "new car smell." Ford has hired 18 smell testers for their Chinese research lab to sniff car parts and send back any with too strong an odor.

It's rare for a WNBA team to win two championships in a row — it's been over two decades since it last happened. Wednesday night the Las Vegas Aces secured bragging rights as back-to-back champs.

Southeast Missouri women's track and field won the 2024 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championship Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 as day two of the championship concluded in Birmingham.