New Hampshire Public Radio

1 day ago | nhpr.org | Anastasia Tsioulcas

The federal trial against hip-hop tycoon Sean Combs is finally getting underway, some eight months after he was arrested on criminal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. Combs — also known by a number of monikers including P. Diddy, Puff Daddy and Puff — concurrently faces dozens of civil lawsuits from men and women who allege that he drugged and sexually assaulted them.

1 day ago | nhpr.org | Dan Charles

Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist in Brazil, spent decades looking for bacteria in the soil that could act like fertilizer, boosting farmers' harvests. But she faced a lot of skepticism. "When I started my career, everybody was like, 'You're crazy! You will never succeed. This will never be possible,'" she recalls. Today, her work was rewarded with the World Food Prize, which recognizes advances in agriculture and nutrition.

1 day ago | nhpr.org | Becky Sullivan |Juana Summers |Vincent Acovino |John Ketchum

The Dallas Mavericks have received the top pick in the next NBA Draft ... which has led to questions after the team traded away its star to the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this year.

1 day ago | nhpr.org | Michelle Liu |Julia Furukawa

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered Host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. Since President Donald Trump took office, he’s tried to freeze federal funding for grants, foreign aid and more, but some of those actions have been challenged in court. Congress is supposed to dictate how the government spends money. So how is the president able to spend or freeze funds?

2 days ago | nhpr.org | Lexi Krupp

A baby was born at Copley Hospital in Morrisville the morning of Mother's Day this year. Hours later, hospital staff who provided care for the mother and newborn gathered with dozens of parents, grandparents and children less than a mile away, calling to prevent that labor and delivery unit from closing. The hospital board and president have said they’re considering closing the unit as a way to save the hospital money.