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Scientists have found a group of worms that haven't reproduced sexually for 18 million years. Normally that would be a recipe for quick extinction, but these little guys seem none the worse for wear.

North America's largest amphibian, the Hellbender salamander, is in trouble. It's endangered in several states. A team in Ohio is trying to save them before it's too late.

The 2015 nuclear deal raised hopes that Iran might act in a more moderate fashion. But many of Iran's more provocative moves, including ballistic missile tests, aren't subject to the agreement.

President Trump took aim at a controversial surveillance law hours after the White House issued a statement calling for Congress to reauthorize it. The politics are fraught.

About half of the 106 trailers at the Sea Breeze Mobile Home Community are destroyed or moved off their foundations.

Airs Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Deborah Campbell's A Disappearance in Damascus is both a taut detective story and an intimate account of friendship during war — and that's before our reviewer discovered her own part in the story.

Four-day event calls itself the 'friendly, intimate comic con experience'

In the Civil War's waning years, African-Americans trying to find lost loved ones used classified ads in newspapers. More than 900 of these notices are now accessible via an online database.

As the Pacific island archipelago of Fiji faces a warming planet, the country's farmers are turning to more climate-resilient techniques that other storm-prone communities worldwide could model.