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The decision to shrink the Army to 450,000 active-duty personnel was made months ago, but Congress was only briefed on the details of the plan in recent days.

Catch baker and Schenectady County Community College Professor Paul Krebs on Food Friday!This is a rustic free-form tart. Ingredients Cranberry Apple…

Christine Brennan, USA Today sports journalist, explains why Simone Biles' Yurchenko double pike feat on Saturday was remarkable — and why it wasn't awarded as such.

More financial help is available now for a sector of businesses that were among the hardest hit by the pandemic shutdowns – food service establishments.…

Many COVID-19 pandemic restrictions will end on Wednesday in New York, including capacity restrictions for some sporting events, indoor gatherings, and…

California is joining some other states in lowering the age of eligibility. It has distributed just shy of 900,000 doses and has more than 2 million doses on hand.

The first-ever NPR Student Podcast challenge has closed, with nearly 6,000 entries from all 50 states. As you might expect, students these days have a lot to say.

Vermont Governor Phil Scott recently signed a bill that moves the state toward establishing an individual mandate that would require all residents have…

2: Magician and juggler PENN JILLETTE. He's one half of the comedy team of Penn and Teller. They are to traditional magic what the Rolling Stones are to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Penn and Teller revel in making fun of traditional magicians, whom they characterize as sleazy lounge performers. Their hit Broadway show was a mix of rock and roll, insults, self-injury and baffling illusions. When David Letterman invited Penn and Teller to "Late Night," the pair made hundreds of hissing cockroaches appear on Dave's desk. On "Saturday Night Live," they seemingly cut a live snake in half. Their home video and book were both titled "Penn and Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends"; their latest book is "Penn & Teller: How To Play With Your Food" (Random House). (REBROACAST FROM 6/19/87). RICKY JAY, one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists: a scholar of the unusual, currator of the Mullholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts, an actor and author of "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women." Currently, JAY performs to sold out shows at Broadway's Second Stage, in a show directed by playwright David Mamet, "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants." (REBROADCAST from 10/21/87). The AMAZING RANDY: a card shark who is skeptical about psychic phenomena and seeks to debunk it.

Baseball legend MICKEY MANTLE. Terry talks with the Yankees' slugger, whose father had his career in pro baseball planned before he was born. Mantle played his entire 17-year career with one team, the New York Yankees. This was recorded in 1985.INT 2: A 1986 interview with former Yankees pitcher JIM BOUTON. In 1970, BOUTON's memoir Ball Four was published. Those who wanted to maintain major league baseball's image as the home of heroes were scandalized by the book; others thought it was about time someone revealed that baseball is full of real people and real problems. Ball Four made an enemy for Bouton of baseball legend Mickey Mantle by reminiscing about Mantle's on- and off-field drunkenness. INT 3: FRANK ROBINSON, Assistant General Manager of the Baltimore Orioles. In 1975, he became the first black manager in baseball, As a player, Robinson was legendary. He is the only player ever to win the Most Valuable Player award in both leagues. His book, Extra Innings, addresses the question of racism in baseball, first broached in a broadly public way when Al Campanis, the former general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers said on a "Nightline" interview that blacks "lacked the necessities" to manage a baseball team. (Originally broadcast 6