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A worker at the Wupperthal Original Rooibos Co-operative's processing facility carries a bag of freshly harvested rooibos to the processing area. The country's rooibos tea exports have skyrocketed from barely 500 tons in 1996 to nearly 9,000 tons today — enough to fill 3.6 billion teabags. But indigenous farmers were long cut out of the revenues, until a ground-breaking agreement was forged.

Trendy rooibos tea finally brings revenues to Indigenous South African farmers

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown widely popular around the world, they've been cut out of revenues. Until now.

Loretta Lynn campaigned for both Bush presidents. She's shown here with President George W. Bush in 2000 in Little Rock, Ark.

How Loretta Lynn, country music and a rural Republican tide changed U.S. politics

At the peak of her fame in the 1960s and 1970s, Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — a change akin to the shifting partisan leanings of the music's most loyal fans.

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A protester in Boston holds up a large replica of a credit card being cut in half during a national day of action to "stop funding climate chaos."

Climate activists target nation's big banks, urging divestment from fossil fuels

Across the U.S. on Tuesday, people gathered outside major banks demanding that financial institutions shift away from investing in fossil fuel projects.

A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters at the News Corporation building in New York City last month. Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News and parent company Fox Corp. over election fraud claims that Fox aired in 2020 and 2021.

The $1.6 billion Dominion v. Fox News trial starts Tuesday. Catch up here

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp. for knowingly airing false claims that its machines rigged the 2020 election against then-President Donald Trump.

Bob McElroy, founder and CEO of the Alpha Project, talks to KPBS about his plan to house as many as 800 people who are living on the streets, Sept. 26, 2016.

Alpha Project CEO frustrated by lack of progress on San Diego homeless crisis

The longtime homeless service provider said for the first time in 35 years, he is discouraged.

Jack Daniel's tells Supreme Court its brand is harmed by dog toy Bad Spaniels

The whiskey maker argues that the toy named Bad Spaniel infringes on its trademark, confuses consumers and tarnishes its reputation.

An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft flies by during a training mission at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada on Nov. 17, 2015.

Despite downed drone, U.S. says it will keep flying near Ukraine

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. will continue flying 'wherever international law allows.' This comes a day after Russia downed a U.S. drone in the Black Sea.

Deepak Patel, 43, conducts a room inspection at the Country Inn and Suites, Baltimore North, a hotel he owns and manages with his family in Rosedale, Maryland.

Hotels say goodbye to daily room cleanings and hello to robots as workers stay scarce

Nearly three years into the pandemic, travel has returned but hotel staff have not. Unable to find workers, hotel owners and managers are having to adapt to what they believe is the new normal.

A Dec. 07, 2019, aerial view of the coastline of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.

The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has been knocked offline for more than a month

The prime minister says about 70 percent of services have been restored, but officials have not commented on a cause or whether ransom was paid. Nor did they respond to NPR's requests for comment.

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