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It's the latest government challenge over how Big Tech controls app stores. Officials say Google acts like a monopoly by abusing the power it has over how people pay for apps on Google devices.

Young workers are in high demand this summer. NPR's Lelia Fadel talks to Evans Prater, founder of Mount Inspiration Apparel, and teen general manager Mary Grace Flattery, about their experience.

More funding for in-person guidance could help ease confusion, say consumer groups. Beefing up education about each plan's relative costs would help, as would shifting open enrollment to tax-time.

If you bank online or sign into work remotely using a virtual private network, your data may not be safe. A flaw in the encryption program OpenSSL could expose much of the encrypted traffic.

New research explores gender disparities in business school enrollment by the different ways men and women appear to process ethical compromise.

The Justice Department made it harder for asylum claims based on domestic abuse and gang violence cases to succeed. A young woman from Nicaragua was one of the first migrants to be denied.

Trump appears to be retaliating against Nancy Pelosi for suggesting he delay his State of the Union speech amid the government shutdown, by postponing at the last minute, her trip to Afghanistan.

Four months after an election dominated largely by the issue of immigration, Sweden has a government. Social Democrats and the prime minister hold on to power while the right-wing party is excluded.

Without a paycheck, many federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown have had to resort to emergency measures to support themselves and their families.

Federal education officials questioned state leaders about teacher bonuses and holding back COVID-19 relief funds from school districts.

Officials have officially ended the search for survivors following last month's condo building collapse. It was a heart-wrenching decision for dozens of families whose loved ones remain missing.

Director Janicza Bravo and co-writer Jeremy O. Harris talk to NPR's Mallory Yu about respecting the storytelling prowess of A'Ziah King while adapting her viral Twitter thread into a feature film.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Florida's Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez about the latest developments in Surfside, Fla.

Law enforcement in Surfside, Fla., is using DNA samples from family members to help identify the victims recovered from the rubble. "It's very emotional," police official Alfredo Ramirez III says.

Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said the legislation comes with a requirement that student athletes get financial literacy training. And he said it gives young athletes the chance to build entrepreneurial skills.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with professor Jenn Jackson about the reversal of Bill Cosby's conviction and why they think restorative justice can ensure accountability and give victims closure.

A new Canadian policy answers a 2015 call for government action. Danita Bilozaze hopes it means that no one will face the resistance she did to rescue her name from a history of forced assimilation.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to professor Lee Ann Sporn of Paul Smith's College in upstate New York about tick-born diseases and how to avoid them this summer.

The hopeful message of the moment is that in various ways we are finding our way — maybe even approaching the normal that we never imagined we could miss so much.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with state Sen. Melissa Hurtado of the California Legislature about her district's struggle with widespread drought and water shortages.

Teviston is home to some 700 people, mostly farmworkers. Since early June, residents have been forced to use stored and bottled water after the pump in the town's only functioning well broke down.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Palestinian reporter Jalal Abukhater about the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and businesses in an East Jerusalem neighborhood.

Federal prosecutors are investigating suspicious deaths at the Veteran Affairs hospital in Clarksburg, W. Va. Two deaths have been ruled homicides, but there could be more.

The West Virginia House of Delegates Monday considers the impeachment of four state Supreme Court justices who are accused of corruption. The fifth has already resigned and is facing federal charges.

In August, the entire West Virginia Supreme Court was impeached. Now the temporary court says they shouldn't have been. How did we get here and what does it mean for the future of the state?