A Few Wise Words About Hugs With Dogs, Frozen Food And Ted Cruz's Farewell

Your dog might not actually appreciate your loving embrace, according to one psychologist. In a recent study, he found that most dogs showed signs of distress when hugged.

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Creature Discomforts Our dogs don't like it when we hug them At least, that's what psychologist and author Stanley Coren found in a recent study. Most dogs showed signs of stress when hugged, he says. Most dog huggers, however, remain unrepentant. And they didn't take kindly to the pronouncement Time For A Freezer Check Here's what you should know about the massive frozen food recall Listeria, the nasty bug causing all the problems, is more likely to be lethal than its better-known counterparts, like salmonella or E. coli. That's one reason the FDA is recalling more than 350 frozen-food products across the country. Here are three other reasons Downer For Dinos Out of the depths, a clue to the cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs Geologists drilling beneath the Gulf of Mexico have hit the layer deposited when an asteroid the size of Staten Island, N.Y., hit Earth. With these samples, they're going back in time — to that dark (literally) chapter of our planet's deep past. Inside the end of an era A Tale Of Two Justice Systems A remote town, a closed-off courtroom and a father facing deportation After conviction, noncitizens face deportation in a second system of justice that has different rules and fewer protections. NPR's Embedded podcast followed one man — and his family — through the process. The full NPR investigation This Is The End, My Friend Welcome to the saddest room in America. Stay awhile. Sob a little After Sen. Ted Cruz announced he'd be dropping out, his watch party became something else entirely. There were cries that shake your chest cavity. Tears that run your makeup off your face. And, yes — lots of hugs, too

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