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By KERA News & Wire ServicesDallas, TX – Southwest Airlines is revamping its frequent-flier program with changes designed to nudge customers into buying…

Despite a pending green card application and her marriage to a United States citizen, ICE detained Ward Sakeik after she returned from her honeymoon in February. Sakeik is of Palestinian descent but has no citizenship in any country.

Texas immigration advocates say federal agents are trying new tactics to arrest more migrants amid a surge in immigration enforcement.

The chosen seven strode across the U.S. Capitol rotunda before the eyes of history and a live television audience. It was late in the afternoon on…

If you ask climate scientist Radley Horton, it's difficult to say that Hurricane Sandy was directly caused by climate change, but he says there are strong connections between the two. He talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about climate change and preparing for severe weather.

Russian researchers in Antarctica are on the verge of piercing a hole through two miles of ice into an ancient lake, untouched by the light of day for some 20 million years. But it'll be a delicate process to break through without disturbing the pristine waters. Guest host David Green speaks with Antarctic researcher John Priscu about the process.

NPR's David Baron reports that a massive flood of black water and house-sized icebergs burst out of a glacier in southeastern Iceland today, spilling across a 20-mile swath of coastline. The flood has destroyed a road, bridges, and utility lines, and it's disrupted fishing off the coast. Scientists had predicted the flood would occur, after a volcano erupted under Iceland's largest ice cap. But the torrent is bigger and is growing faster than anticipated.

In the streets of Delhi, India, a traditional summer drink quenches the thirst and the soul.

North Carolina's electricity was knocked out when an ice storm that hit the state on Wednesday. Dozens of people have been killed by the snow and ice that came with the storm. National Guardsmen, local police and utility workers have been working to restore power to more than a million people. Steve speaks with Greensboro resident Martha Walton about how she's been coping for the past four days.

On Wednesday, the governor sent a cease-and-desist letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying its arrest of a dairy farmer in upstate New York last week violated the law.