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Sweden's icy winter leads a lot of people indoors which didn't deter one enterprising ice cream truck driver. He simply played his truck's jingle louder. So loud, that residents complained. Which led the ice cream company to come up with a quieter substitute to the traditional jingle: texting.

From Texas Standard . In a backlash against the president’s immigration policies, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, are now echoing...

A group of scientists is embarking on a bold plan to better understand an extremely understudied part of the rapidly warming Arctic — the central Arctic Ocean.

Summertime ice in the Arctic Ocean has been in quick retreat. There's a lot of uncertainty about how quickly it will melt away entirely in the summertime. Estimates range from 2013 to beyond 2100. The uncertainty is explained by the science behind the phenomenon of melting.

The Stanley Cup finals are set, the NBA playoffs feature a thrilling matchup between Texas and Oklahoma, and the French Open, uh, opens. Host Scott Simon catches up on the week in sports with NPR's Tom Goldman.

The novel Shaman, by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson is a coming of age novel set in the ice age. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says it is the latest to take up the question of what it was like to live 30,000 years ago on the cusp of change from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon dominance of the human world.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, concerns have risen about safety in immigration detention centers, where social distancing is difficult.

The Washington Post obtained a report that found over 60 violations at an ICE detention facility. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Doug MacMillan, who obtained the report, about what it found.

The scene in Minneapolis in the days after an ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old mother.

The Dallas branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement contacted Denton Mayor Gerard Hudspeth last week to set up a meeting with city leaders to discuss ICE’s 287(g) program that could give Denton police the authority to screen people in custody for immigration offenses.