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The administration has announced a new military strategy designed to open up the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, but it's unclear if this will break Iran's grip on the key waterway.

More than 30 sloths imported for an exhibit in Florida have died. State officials are now investigating what went wrong as a zoo tries to keep about a dozen sloths alive.

Ohio voters say they're concerned by what they see as the rising cost of living. Even with statewide races on the ballot, voters say its local issues that are motivating them to cast primary ballots.

A Missouri resident was deported earlier this year to the Netherlands, a country he left when he was 5 years old. Now he's learning the language and trying to make a new life.

Drought conditions in Florida are so bad that some lakes are drying up and alligators are running out of room.

Grape growers are planting hybrid grapes that can withstand colder temperatures, irrigating their vines rather than relying on natural rainfall and turning to new strategies to ensure healthy soil.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Martha Gimbel, executive director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale, about living in a war economy.

Hebrew Union College, the oldest Jewish seminary in the United States, was established in 1875 in Cincinnati by the founder of Reform Judaism in North America. The college has other campuses, but its rabbinical program in Cincinnati will shut down and graduate its last four students at the end of the first week in May.

One of the Tiny Desk Contest judges introduces us to finalists Les Greene and the Swayzees, a group based in Miami, Fla.

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife. This year's theme is "one million more" — reflecting a shortage of midwives.