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Several news organizations report Oprah Winfrey has picked 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, for Oprah's Book Club. After comments he made about the club and show in 2001, Franzen was uninvited by Winfrey.

Millions of Americans have started investing during the pandemic. For many it's been a great ride, with stocks hitting all-time highs. But now the market is wobbling, with wild swings up and down.

BP continues to move forward with restructuring plans, as Bob Dudley prepares to begin his tenure as the company's CEO. It announced the creation of a new safety and risk unit today.

An historian of Russian and Soviet espionage says that the sort of deep-cover espionage allegedly practiced by eleven suspects is "almost unprecedented."

The remnants of what appears to have been an eighteenth-century ship have been unearthed by workers excavating ground zero in New York.

Senator Patrick Leahy spoke with NPR's Michele Norris.

An oil rig, 90 miles off the Gulf of Mexico, is on fire, the U.S. Coast Guard reports. Thirteen people on board the rig are accounted for. An explosion was reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. ET.

This year's class of MacArthur Fellows, recipients of unrestricted $500,000 awards, include Matthew Carter, a type designer; Kelly Benoit-Bird, a marine biologist; and David Simon, the creator of "The Wire"

Fans of the show will recognize "The Tower" and "Marlo Stanfield's Corner," locations on the game board. Of course, players can be sent to jail. (There are two of them.)

The U.S. military has collected fingerprints, DNA information, and iris scans from millions of Iraqi civilians and suspected insurgents.

Suraya Dalil, Afghanistan's Acting Minister of Public Health, told NPR health care in the country is improving, but geography and security risks make wider implementation difficult.

The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have added a series of new words and phrases to the lexicon.

Because they lived outside the city limits, the local fire department required the Cranicks and their neighbors to pay $75 for their services. The Cranicks didn't. Their house was destroyed.

In what is perhaps the longest traffic jam -- in terms of length and time elapsed, cars have been crawling along a 60-mile stretch of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway.

At a book party at the Serpentine Club, two men grabbed the writer's eyeglasses, left a ransom note, and fled into Hyde Park. The culprit was caught 30 minutes later, and Franzen has his glasses back.

The board says that trust funds will be exhausted in 2037.

Two years ago today, carrying a glut of sub-prime mortgages, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will announce his resignation from the Obama administration tomorrow, to run for mayor of the city of Chicago, NPR has confirmed.

Van Jones Relates To Shirley Sherrod, Worries About Attacks On Democracy

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Radiolab producer Rachael Cusick about her search for Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, the psychiatrist behind the five stages of grief.

Federal prosecutors in New York filed a request on Friday that they be allowed to enter more evidence of uncharged crimes allegedly committed by the R&B singer in his trial next month.

A health advisory is being issued for many Pinellas beaches this weekend, with onshore breezes expected to make many red tide conditions worse.

An appeals court ruling has ended a constitutional crisis and confirmed Fiame Naomi Mata'afa as the first woman to lead Samoa. After a tight election in April, two people claimed to be prime minister.

The new chief, Tom Manger, said the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection should not define the department and that necessary changes to its procedures have been made in the months since.

The positivity rate for new cases in the week ending July 22 was nearly five times as high as rates from last month as new cases surge and the pace of vaccination stalls.