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A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320-232 takes off from the Tampa International Airport in Florida on May 15, 2014. Two bodies were found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday night, the airline said.

2 bodies found in JetBlue plane's landing gear compartment at a Florida airport

The bodies were located in the wheel well area at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. It's the second time over the past month that a body has been found in the wheel well of an airplane.

A stethoscope sits on a pile of U.S. bank notes.

New rules will ban medical debt from your credit report

The move, which comes less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, represents a challenge to the new administration.

Tetiana Medvedenko (left) and Iryna Ostanko (right), both underground machine operators, walk to the elevators that will take them below the surface into a DTEK coal mine near Ternivka, Ukraine.

In a workforce transformed by war, Ukrainian women are now working in coal mines

War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have started working in traditionally male jobs.

Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc in Paris in 2017

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French fiery far-right leader, dies at 96

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that propelled his popularity remain ascendant in today's France and beyond.

Robyne (left) and her son Zander, 17, talk about new challenges to military families with trans kids near San Diego, Dec. 20, 2024.

San Diego military family reacts to loss of gender-affirming medical coverage

This year's defense spending bill, signed by President Biden Dec. 24, strips gender-affirming care coverage for military dependents under age 18.

The war in Sudan has taken a toll on the country's medical profession -- interrupting medical education and driving doctors out of the country. Above: 36-year-old doctor and Sudanese refugee Yassin Ishag Dawod is now a refugee in Chad; above, he gets an intravenous drip ready while attending a patient in the Farchana refugee camp.

They were going to be doctors. Instead, they had to dodge bombs and flee war

The war in Sudan has taken a toll on the medical profession. Health workers have fled the country, and those seeking to complete their medical education are finding it an increasingly impossible task.

Zebrafish larvae through a microscope in a laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 2023.

Tiny fish on ketamine may show how drug eases depression

In zebrafish, ketamine causes changes a brain circuit involved in "giving up." That may help explain how the drug helps people with depression.

What America's top economists are saying about AI and inequality

Planet Money attended the annual meeting of American economists — and the most popular topic this year was artificial intelligence.

A McDonald's restaurant in Mount Lebanon, Pa., is pictured in 2021.

McDonald's says it is revising some of its diversity practices

McDonald's says it is changing some of its inclusion standards, becoming the latest large company to announce it is rolling back some of its diversity practices.

The flag-draped casket bearing the remains of former President Jimmy Carter lies in the Capitol Rotunda during a memorial service at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 7, in Washington, D.C.

U.S. leaders honor former President Jimmy Carter's legacy of service and citizenship

Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President Harris eulogized the 39th president at a U.S. Capitol Rotunda ceremony, and he will now lie in state until Thursday.

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