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The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, have maintained they did nothing wrong. People who lost loved ones and years of their lives to opioid addiction believe otherwise.

Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed the Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act to restrict how race-related issues can be taught in public schools and in workplace training sessions.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Ned Price, spokesperson for the State Department, who says Russia is accusing U.S. and Ukraine of preparing biological weapons.

Payments from the child tax credit were closing the gaps on child hunger and poverty. But Congress failed to renew it. Now families who need it most have already slipped back into financial trouble.

As cryptocurrency become more mainstream, some states are introducing legislation to standardize crypto as a form of payment.

Most multinational companies have cut ties with Russia. An era of economic openness that started when McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, is coming to a close.

Emilio Delgado, who spent decades entertaining children playing Luis on Sesame Street, has died. His was the longest-running role for a Mexican American in a TV series. Delgado was 81.

A new report finds global energy related carbon dioxide emissions rose 6% last year to an all-time high. The report from the International Energy Agency means bad news for the world's climate.

NPR's A Martinez talks to actor Ryan Reynolds, who stars in the new film — The Adam Project — about a time-traveling pilot on a quest to save the future.

The Russian leader said his forces invaded Ukraine because a genocide was underway against Russian-speakers. People in Ukraine say that claim is a hoax.

Russian forces extend their battlefield in Ukraine. House Democrats are plotting their way forward to the November elections. Victims of the opioid crisis formally confront the Sackler family.

Scientists in Montana recently found a fossil of an early ancestor of modern octopuses. It lived about 330 million years ago — before the age of dinosaurs.

As Ukraine continues to fight the Russians, its military will require more help. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Andrew Mac, an adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, about U.S. assistance.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is attending the meeting in Brussels. The U.S. and Europe are imposing new sanctions on Russia and promising to speed up deliveries of weapons to Ukraine.

While standard solar panels can provide electricity during the day, this device can be a "continuous renewable power source" during the day and at night.

In Alabama, college student Nick Dupree –- a young man who is so disabled that he can't move his body — took on the state health care system, and won.

In this latest installment of our Lost and Found Sound series, NPR's Don Gonyea remembers the heyday of powerhouse AM radio. Gonyea grew up in Detroit, where the big station in the 60's and 70's was CKLW. It broadcast from across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario. It was a loud, glitzy noise-making enterprise. Everything was shouted -- even the news. The 50,000-watt giant spewed rock and roll and hyped-news across 28 states and mid-Canada. Gonyea describes the formula that made CKLW and its imitators successful.

In part one of a two-part interview, Host Bob Edwards talks with singer, songwriter John Prine about his latest CD In Spite Of Ourselves. Prine has been recording since 1971 and has won a Grammy and the respect of his peers, many of whom have recorded his tunes. Prine was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1997. John Prine's latest CD, In Spite Of Ourselves, is available on Oh Boy Records; ASIN: B00000K3LI.

Host Bob Edwards continues his conversation with singer/songwriter John Prine. Prine's songs have been covered by every one from Bonnie Raitt to Johnny Case. On his new CD, In Spite of Ourselves, Prine chose to sing some classic country tunes written by legends like Tex Ritter and Hank Williams, Sr. He's joined by some of his favorite female singers like Iris Dement and Emmylou Harris in a series of duets. (7:19) John Prine's latest CD In Spite Of Ourselves is available on Oh Boy Records; ASIN: B00000K3LI

Our year-long series visits a man obsessed with the sound of TV. Phil Gries started recording audio from his television set in the 1950s. He still has over 10-thousand items, and has turned his hobby into a business -- supplying audio from old TV shows to other collectors and museums. He says he was motivated by the ethereal nature of live TV to preserve broadcasts of all sorts.

NPR's Jacki Lyden speaks with writer Jean Nathan about the haunting, true story behind the children's book, The Lonely Doll. The book, a classic for more than 35 years, was written and photographed by Dare Wright, an ethereal, child-like beauty who never separated from her mother and kept her own toy doll Edith close at hand for more than 60 years. Nathan's article The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll appears in the latest issue of the new literary magazine Tin House.

NPR's Alex Chadwick profiles photographer Luis Marden for The Geographic Century series, a co-production of NPR and The National Geographic Society. Marden was a pioneering photographer for much of the 20th century. Among other things, he discovered the wreck of the Bounty.

Those who got their Easter baskets last week may find only one thing left in the plastic grass: Peeps. They're the tiny marshmallow confections shaped like chicks and bunnies, dyed bright pink, yellow and blue. For artist David Ottogalli, they're the building blocks of art. Don visits a gallery where Ottogalli has installed Peepsshow -- an exhibit of flags, magnets and a chicken coop made from Peeps.

Robert talks to Frederick Wiseman, the director of "Belfast, Maine," a documentary about life in that small New England town. The four hour film shows scenes of everyday life, without narration. Wiseman's cameras visit places all over town, including trailer homes, factories, the county jail and emergency room and a school. Wiseman describes his philosophy of filmmaking. The film airs tomorrow on PBS.

In the first of an occasional series on Young People and Religion, Lynn Neary reports on members of Generation X who are filling two very different churches in Seattle. One is a borrowed space in which traditional doctrine is celebrated to a rock music beat. The other uses ancient ritual but adheres to less traditional teachings.