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The Justice Department has indicted FedEx for shipping prescription drugs from illegal online pharmacies. FedEx had been warned, and now faces up to $1.6 billion in fines if found guilty.

A Georgia man accused of killing eight people at Atlanta-area spas received four life sentences without parole. He faces four other murder charges in Atlanta where he could receive the death penalty.

The headquarters for Audible are in Newark, N.J. Earlier this year, it offered a lottery for employees — free rent for a year to live in an a building in downtown of the much-maligned city.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has released a plan for moving the state from thinking about COVID-19 as a pandemic, to dealing with it as a disease people will learn to live with.

Danish consumers are turning their back on U.S. goods because of tensions over Greenland.

The Trump administration is recalling dozens of career Ambassadors, saying the president wants diplomats who will advance his agenda. That's what foreign service officers sign up for.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, about how to address nationwide delays in distributing COVID-19 vaccines.

Last year was one of the most difficult years in Boeing's history. A second crash of its 737 Max aircraft led to a worldwide grounding of the fleet, and the eventual firing of its CEO.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson reviews a new ad by Fidelity Investments featuring legendary musician Paul McCartney.

State Sen. Sandy Senn believes that legislators cannot tell a woman what is best for her own life.

In a Pennsylvania coal mining area in the 1940s, a mother was raising two kids on a secretary's salary. Bill Sayenga remembers his mother’s decision to run for office, and her lasting influence.

After the death of his father, the poet Kevin Young looked for a collection of poetry about grieving and recovering after loss. When he couldn't find one, he compiled one himself. His new anthology is called The Art of Losing.

Wednesday was the last day of school in Broward and Miami-Dade counties — and officials are putting an emphasis on water safety for the summer.

The Queen's Cartoonists is a jazz band with elements of classical music, comedy and clowning that performs music live to animation, both old and contemporary.

A worker at a funeral home managed to locate the family members of an ailing woman. She didn't realize she was uncovering a family secret that went back to the 1940s.

In the book Speaking of Alabama, an essay by linguistics professor Catherine Davies calls "y'all" a speech "improvement" — at least when referring to the plural second person.

Last year, the popular, albeit unauthorized online version of Scrabble disappeared in a puff of lawsuits — leaving hundreds of thousands of word enthusiasts in the lurch. Now, the creators of Scrabulous have quietly relaunched a new version of the game — but Scrabble guru Stefan Fatsis says it won't cut it for the purists.

Political journalist Elizabeth Drew chronicled the events of 1974 in her recently reissued Washington Journal. She tells NPR's Robert Siegel that she sees "a certain nobility" in Nixon's resilience.

Several days after Ukraine said nine planes were destroyed at a Russian air base in Crimea, nobody has publicly claimed responsibility for it — but speculation abounds.

Ezra has a voice that can float high and delicate, but it can also wade deep. His debut album, Wanted On Voyage, is named for the words inscribed on Paddington Bear's suitcase.

Thousands will gather in Indianapolis this month for the NCAA Men's Division One Basketball Championships. While welcoming the economic boost, some are concerned about crowds during the pandemic.

Previous months were revised upward and hourly wages climbed higher. All this has analysts wondering if the economy has finally kicked into a higher gear.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that roughly 1 in 5 stars, like our own sun, have an Earth-like planet orbiting around it. That's about 40 billion planets that could support life in the Milky Way galaxy. Melissa Block talks to co-author Geoff Marcy, an astronomy professor at the University of California-Berkeley, about the latest numbers.

Hear a summery selection of tracks that some of our favorite public-radio hosts loved this month, including music from BØRNS, Django Django and Somi.

Our panel of public-radio music curators assembles a mix of new songs by The Jayhawks, FKA twigs, Birds Of Chicago and more.