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Starbucks founder and two-time CEO Howard Schultz is coming back to the company as interim leader. His return coincides with a widespread union drive by the chain's employees.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., about the likelihood of a near-term compromise on changes to U.S. asylum law.

A community rallied after a couple lost their dog in a car accident that nearly killed them all. Eventually, they all made it home.

The festival is back with an expected 7,000-plus food lovers gathering from March 31 to April 3.

More than six weeks into the deadly conflict between Ukraine and the invading Russia, the world is watching. So how are teachers working this into their lesson plans and what are students taking away?

A judge is set to rule this week whether Southern Methodist University graduate Omar Salazar, who was taken into immigration custody last September, will be allowed to stay in the country.

Seattle broke the Guinness World Record for largest snowball fight in January with 5,834 participants. St. Paul, Minn., hopes to top that next month during its Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival. For more, Melissa Block speaks with Joe Alton, a project manager for the carnival and its snowball-fight organizer.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that roughly 1 in 5 stars, like our own sun, have an Earth-like planet orbiting around it. That's about 40 billion planets that could support life in the Milky Way galaxy. Melissa Block talks to co-author Geoff Marcy, an astronomy professor at the University of California-Berkeley, about the latest numbers.

Yangsze Choo's second novel features a disembodied finger, Chinese dancehalls of the 1930s and weretigers. For the author, it's a book of parallel worlds: the supernatural and the real.

Despite widespread hunger, deepening crime, nearly nonexistent health care, hyperinflation and a surge of people fleeing the country, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro won re-election.