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"The whole reason I wanted to go back to the fields with my parents is because I wouldn't have the degree and the diploma if it wasn't for them," says Jennifer Rocha, recent graduate of UC San Diego.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Christopher D. Roberti, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's authority on cybersecurity, about how businesses are handling the threat of ransomware attacks.

Both Congress and the President have been seeking to repeal the gas tax, an issuing that affects many Americans. Noah talks with longhaul truck driver Lee Klass who says the price hikes are costing him at 30 cents more a gallon this year. He spoke to Noah from a truck stop in Forestville, Missouri. Klass is paying 30 cents a gallon more this year to fill up his 200 gallon rig.

Noah Adams talks with Scottish singer Archie Fisher, who sings of the land and traditions of his native Scotland. Mr. Fisher combines the traditions of the Border country in Scotland with contemporary folk music. He talks about his new album Sunsets I Have Galloped and about the traditions of that shaped his more than twenty year career.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., about the infrastructure bill, climate change and the state of the pandemic in Florida.

Four years after the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis was rocked by protests over a sculpture that inflamed the indigenous community, a new structure by artist Angela Two Stars helps to make amends.

A tanker ship carrying 500,000 barrels of oil has broken in two and sunk off the Atlantic coast of Spain. The Prestige ruptured last week, and has already spilled more than 70,000 barrels into the water. The beaches of Galicia in northwest Spain are already coated in oil. And now environmentalists are calling the sunken oil containers a "time bomb," just waiting to release millions of gallons more. Robert Siegel talks with Elizabeth Nash, a correspondent for the British paper The Independent, who is in Coruna, Spain.

The federal government imposes a modest increase in fuel economy standards for sport utility vehicles and small trucks, beginning with the 2005 model year. Fuel efficiency for the popular models is now expected to rise about 1.5 miles per gallon by 2007. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

A four-inch long killer shrimp has been destroying prized sea snails, barnacles and hermit crabs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Linda talks to Senior Aquarist David Cripe about the vicious shrimp that invaded a 13-hundred gallon tank at the aquarium.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Gerry Hadden about the oil spill and its impact on the Galapagos Island. Several thousand gallons of diesel fuel leaked into the waters of the Galapagos after an oil tanker ran aground more than a week ago.