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A 2-year-old in China repeatedly entered the wrong passcode into his mother's iPhone while trying to watch videos. Now it's locked for 25 million minutes, or about 47 years.

Venezuela has freed 10 Americans in exchange for Venezuelans whom the United States had sent to a prison in El Salvador.

In the '50s, four people collaborated to create a pill so women could enjoy sex. They fibbed about their motivations and skirted the law. Jonathan Eig details the history in The Birth of the Pill.

Even with tax season in the rear view, financial stress can occur all year.

The 11-year-old vizsla-Labrador mix screened passengers at a Minnesota airport and helped with security at major sporting events. He celebrated his last day at work with toys, cake and pets.

Mystery writer Ian Rankin recently retired the gruff detective John Rebus, beloved star of 17 novels. In The Complaints, Rankin whips up a new police protagonist: Malcolm Fox, a more mild-mannered cop who works in internal affairs, investigating other policemen.

With egg prices soaring in the U.S., many people are crossing the border to buy them in Mexico. It's illegal to bring raw eggs back to the U.S., but that hasn't stopped some people from trying.

This week, oil prices plunged, falling below $43 a barrel. A year ago, a barrel of West Texas crude oil was selling for more than twice that. Consumers in most of the country are reaping the benefits. But the downside of low prices means tough times for oil field workers. In a small Texas city, nearly everyone is feeling the pain of low oil prices.

With a brief break in the storms hitting California, businesses in the Santa Cruz area are trying to clean up. Officials say true recovery can't begin until the last expected storm hits next week.

Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America head Matt Priest tells NPR's Scott Simon about his industry's reaction to the trade war with China.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Wara, who directs a climate and energy policy program at Stanford, about the financial calculus insurers are doing as the threat of climate-fueled disasters grows.

Ukraine's focus on maintaining education during a war is in line with an emerging philosophy of disaster response.

NPR's Steve Inskeep, discussing his book Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War, touches on parallels to U.S. politics in 2020.

The Ghanaian singer would vocalize and dance all night long to send off the departed. On the verge of his long awaited first trip to perform abroad, he has died, reportedly of COVID.

Jessica Davis, the Minnesota native who sang the national anthem on Night 3 of the DNC, is a mathematics teacher in the Twin Cities metro area who has been celebrated as a dedicated educator.

In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions.

Ohio's growing female prison population can be tied to drugs and addiction. Officials want to stop the cycle. One program helps women get at the root of their problems to help them change.

Rep. Seth Moulton has spoken publicly about death threats against him and his family.

The food pantry at Brashear High School is open once a week, and each student gets about five minutes to shop. Any snacks they don't take often go to teachers, to offer to hungry pupils.

As Facebook and Twitter crack down on extremist groups, some on the right are migrating to alternative social media platforms that promise rules laxer than those of mainstream websites.

The controversial Smithsonian exhibition Hide/Seek has sparked national debate — not for what's in it, mostly, but for what's been taken out. As the exhibit comes to a close, its curators look back and examine its role in the history of American culture wars.

Walter Newman, has been giving flu vaccines to California farm workers for decades. He talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about ensuring they get COVID-19 shots, even as the state runs low on doses.

The British band Roxy Music, led by singer/songwriter Bryan Ferry, released their fourth album in 1974. It would go on to crack the Billboard top 40 — and it remains thrilling today.

When Terry Hill was 4, she and her young siblings were left in the car by themselves as their father ran into a store. Then the car started moving. A young man stopped the car before anyone got hurt.