Cambodia is recognizing the life-saving contributions of a rat named Magawa with a statue. The late rat sniffed out landmines for a non-profit group, and in a short career helped find more than 100.

It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon.

In her new book You've Been Pooping All Wrong, Dr. Trisha Pasricha shares habits and practices to make your relationship with your solid waste as smooth as possible

India's satirists are turning Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a punch line — and the government is hitting back.

The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening.

NPR visits the last detention camp for ISIS wives and children in an increasingly precarious northeastern Syria.

Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in "every major operating system and web browser." Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs.

With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle?

This week on Economics IE: gas prices, oil drilling and AI.

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Jamelle Bouie is a New York Times columnist who writes about politics through the lens of American political history. Thursday night, Bouie gave a lecture at UC Riverside as part of a nearly 60 year tradition of bringing the country’s best known journalists to Riverside. He told the audience the United States is asking fundamental questions like what it means to be an American. And that the Reconstruction era, the period after the American Civil War, can help Americans better understand the changes the US is undergoing today. After his lecture and a Q-and-A, KVCR reporter Madison Aument slipped backstage to ask Bouie a few more questions.

Today's top stories for Friday, April, 3, 2026.