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Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.

After years of limbo, the U.S. government has given the green light to a crash test dummy based on the female body. But will it be used right away? Not so fast.

Retailers use marketing techniques to get you to spend more, like creating a false sense of urgency or creating artificial discounts. Outsmart the gimmicks with these tips.

Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Ore., have been persisting for over 100 days. And now counterprotesters from the right are making their presence felt in the state.

The House voted to remove Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the Education and Budget committees following controversial statements citing conspiracy theories prior to her election win.

Susanna Sonnenberg's life has been full of interesting women, and in a new memoir she tells their stories. Reviewer Meg Wolitzer says that She Matters: A Life in Friendships is a beautifully written book about the bonds, and the boundary issues, between women.

Joe Kennedy lectures burping baby Ted on political ambition while teenagers Joe Jr. and John wrestle for the presidency. Cartoonist Kate Beaton irreverently recasts history and classic literature in her new book, Hark! A Vagrant.

For the fourth year in a row, VIDA has tallied the gender breakdown in prominent literary journals. Some outlets, like The New York Times Book Review, have grown more equal; others, not so much.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alabama State Rep. Jeremy Gray about his bill to bring yoga back to the state's public schools.

An oil train derailment near Seattle is under investigation. In late 2020, 10 tanker cars went off the rails. Now, the rail workers unions says they believe the disaster was caused by sabotage.

Longtime NPR correspondent Margot Adler died at the age of 68, after a battle with cancer. Adler's work ranged from the serious to the whimsical and often showcased her love of New York City.

After a racism controversy, the national trade organization for romance writers had been making progress. Then, it gave a major prize to a book whose hero murdered Native Americans at Wounded Knee.

The trial of former officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota for shooting a suspect when she says she thought she had a Taser in her hand has revived worrying questions about Taser design and use.

Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver a Christmas message. This pope has traditionally used these messages to focus on conflicts that are afflicting the world.

The international comedy festival draws new and established stand-ups, improvisers, sketch actors, comedy writers. Some people are just looking for a good laugh, but some want to hire the comedians.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to an immigrant, Christopher Francis from Sri Lanka, who was looking for the man who gave him a visa to enter the U.S. 45 years ago.

In Florida, President Trump spent part of his holiday weekend attacking FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Why has the president taken aim at McCabe at this particular moment?

In 2003, U.S. forces discovered a cache of documents and sacred texts that had belonged to Iraq's once-thriving Jewish community in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's secret police. The records were transported to the U.S., where efforts to restore them are stalled by a shortage of funds.

Scott Simon speaks to Joan Biskupic, legal analyst at CNN and Supreme Court biographer, about Chief Justice John Roberts and his leadership within the Supreme Court.

As companies that experienced explosive growth in the pandemic begin to scale back, some workers are finding themselves suddenly out of work and scrambling to land something new.

The books were listed because they included “prohibited topics” or were inconsistent with state standards, according to the Florida Department of Education.

Throughout the month of May, WUSF is featuring the voices of local teachers, as they describe the challenges they face, in their own words.

Judith Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, was sentenced to jail Wednesday after she refused to identify a confidential source who leaked the name of CIA agent, Valerie Plame. Time magazine's Matthew Cooper was also slated to go to jail for refusing to name his source, but at the last minute, his source offered him a reprieve.

Thursday, the Kansas state Board of Education begins hearings that could decide what public school students learn about the origins of life. For one Kansas science teacher, it's a familiar debate.

Michael Cogswell, director of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives, singer Songwriter Bonnie Raitt, Times-Picayune reporter Betsy Mullener, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe author Fannie Flagg and Mississippi-born author Richard Ford offer words of encouragement to the victims of Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.