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Meet The Most Pampered Vegetables In America

Chef's Garden is a farm in Ohio growing vegetables to the specifications of the world's top chefs. It's a place where vegetables are artistic materials painstakingly tended and handled like jewels.

Sandra Hill offers guidance to Mark Scheiffley during a Bob Ross painting class at the Franklin Parks Art Center in Purcellville, Va., on Sept. 20. Hill is one of more than 3,000 people certified to teach the Bob Ross wet-on-wet painting technique.

The Lasting Legacy Of Bob Ross And His Colorful World Of 'Happy Accidents'

The bushy-haired former Air Force sergeant with the soothing voice rose to fame in the 1980s and '90s with his PBS show The Joy of Painting. Bob Ross died in 1995, but his popularity endures.

Lt. Keith Immerfall walks past prison cells at Waupun Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Waupun, Wis. If the more than 1,200 prisoners at the facility are still incarcerated there on April 1, the next Census Day, the Census Bureau will officially consider them residents of Waupun for the 2020 national head count.

'Your Body Being Used': Where Prisoners Who Can't Vote Fill Voting Districts

The U.S. census counts incarcerated people as residents of where they are imprisoned. In many prison towns, that has led to voting districts made up primarily of prisoners who can't vote.

Megan Thee Stallion performs at NPR's Tiny Desk Fest on October 28, 2019.

Megan Thee Stallion: Live At NPR's Tiny Desk Fest

The secret's out! One of 2019's brightest new stars peformed a live show at the Tiny Desk.

A month after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, Sherrine Petit Homme LaFrance gets a hug from husband Ferrier Petit Homme. The storm destroyed their home on Grand Abaco Island. They are now living with China Laguerre in Nassau.

PHOTOS: After The Storm, Haitians In The Bahamas Depend On The Kindness Of Strangers

One woman turned her home into an ad hoc shelter for Haitians displaced by the storm and facing discrimination.

Addario's coverage of maternal mortality took her to a remote village in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan in 2009, where she photographed a midwife giving a prenatal check in a private home. "In these areas someone will announce that a doctor and a midwife are coming, and any pregnant and lactating women within a certain radius come if they want prenatal or postnatal care," she says.

PHOTOS: Why Lynsey Addario Has Spent 10 Years Covering Maternal Mortality

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, known for her work in war zones, turns to a topic that is often shied away from: the risks women face when giving birth.

Wale performs a Tiny Desk concert on Oct. 30, 2019.

Wale, Live At NPR's Tiny Desk Fest

The chart-topping Washington, D.C., rapper brings his songs to life at the Tiny Desk with the help of a six-piece go-go band.

Baltimore's Franklin Square neighborhood is hotter than about two-thirds of the neighborhoods in the city. It's also in one of Baltimore's poorest areas.

As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most

Hotter neighborhoods tend to be poorer in dozens of major U.S. cities. That extra heat can have serious health effects for those living there.

Student Loan Borrowers With Disabilities Aren't Getting Help They Were Promised

Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are eligible to have their student loans erased because a disability keeps them from working. NPR found many will likely never get the debt relief they're owed.

A Tennessee man named Horace Burgess began constructing the treehouse in the early 1990s, saying God had called on him to do it.

A Giant Treehouse 'Like A Castle' Is Destroyed By Fire In Tennessee

The structure rose five stories, with a towering steeple. Its builder said he'd been called by God to make it. By the time the firetrucks were called on Tuesday, it was fully engulfed in flames.

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