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The U.S. Postal Service has given the go-ahead to a year-long trial run for customized stamps. The first company to provide them is the same one that ran a two-month pilot program last fall... Stamps.com in Los Angeles. Rachael Myrow of member station KPCC offers details.

A North Carolina animal services unit is taking time to thank all the Good Samaritans who take the time to help animals in need, after a litter of puppies was found abandoned and in danger along the side of the road.

A Jacksonville non-profit has received a $2 million dollar grant to help more children who are victims of abuse. One Place, a Jacksonville nonprofit that provides family services and child victim care, will use the $2 million dollar grant from the State Employees Credit Union Foundation to build a new facility.

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune has opened the doors to another new, state-of-the-art clinic for service members.

USPS officials say more than 5,300 Postal Service employees were attacked by dogs while delivering the mail in 2022. North Carolina was tenth in the U.S for dog attacks on mail carriers, with 146.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond about the Trump Administration's directive to Department of Health and Human Services agencies to pause all external communications.

One listener remembers the voice of Casey Kasem speaking to a young, lonely music nerd of the future — one who regrets not getting a chance to say thank you, so this will have to do.

Host Michel Martin gets a preview of the Winter Olympics, from the athletes to the accommodations. She talks with NPR's Sonari Glinton, and McClatchy's William Douglas, who are in Sochi for the Games.

Caro isn't solely interested in telling the stories of famous men. Instead, he says, "I wanted to use their lives to show how political power worked." Originally broadcast in 2013 and 2019.

On this week's All Songs Considered we share NPR Music listeners' picks for the top new artists from the first half of the year.