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The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to recover valuable genetic variation that was lost.

It's one week until the Iowa caucuses. The top five candidates in Iowa were all there Sunday — including the three senators squeezing in campaigning amid President Trump's impeachment trial.

Donning a mustache, top hat and giant bag full of money, a consumer rights activist became a social media sensation for protesting an Equifax hearing on Capitol Hill. Here is how it happened.

"Fire everybody at the top," one Democratic congressman says. Other advocates just want Biden to appoint new members to the Postal Service's board of governors.

Lance Armstrong says he doubts anyone can win the Tour de France without doping. Weekend Edition Saturday host Lynn Neary talks to NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman about the Tour, the Women's Open and Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.

The nation's No. 1 and No. 2 cable companies would come together if Comcast's plan to buy Time Warner for $45 billion goes through. Before that can happen, though, federal lawyers are expected to consider the effect of such a combination on consumers.

When The New York Times removed Jill Abramson from the top editor spot at the paper — the first woman in the role — the publisher replaced her with Dean Baquet — the first black person in that job.

A drift-prone herbicide called dicamba continues to plague the Midwest, despite promises to end the problem from the chemical's backers. A top seed industry executive now has joined dicamba's critics.

President Biden is at just 39% approval. "These are sort of rock-bottom numbers," said the director of the survey, which was conducted before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A big part of Donald Trump's proposed tax cut would go to corporations. The president-elect says that will fuel investment and growth; critics say the plan would explode the federal budget deficit.