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Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter in a $43 billion takeover, which the company's board is attempting to resist. What's at stake, and where is all this going?

The organization releases clams into Sarasota Bay due to their natural abilities to filter excess nutrients.

The textbooks need to be ordered as soon as possible to have them in time for teacher training, said one Manatee County official.

Online real estate data company Stessa reviewed statistics from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Mizelle was nominated by former President Donald Trump in 2020 at age 33. The American Bar Association said at the time she wasn't qualified because she hadn't been practicing law for long enough.

Michigan was a focal point in Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election. Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News Service tells NPR's Ailsa Chang that election misinformation still looms large there.

A divorced Pennsylvania couple could not agree on whether to vaccinate their children — and ended up in court. Since the vaccine was approved for kids, cases like these have skyrocketed in the state.

Earlier this month, the judge refused to toss out her conviction after a juror disclosed during deliberations that he had been sexually abused as a child.

A scathing report by California's Auditor of five large police departments finds evidence of officer bias against women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people, and there's no goal to improve.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with A.E. Dick Howard, University of Virginia law professor, about the constitutional amendment process and the historical precedence of prohibitory amendments like the Federal Marriage Amendment.

In Michigan, election administrators are preparing for the possibility of new poll workers who believe President Trump's lies about a stolen election.

For several years now, historical preservationists have been stepping up efforts to transfer millions of hours of precious, perishable sound recordings to a single, stable format. At the Library of Congress, technicians are working feverishly to convert their huge collection of tapes, CDs, LPs, eight-track tapes and other audio formats to a playback format that will stand the test of time. NPR's Rick Karr reports on an effort some observers call foolish.

After attending court proceedings on Tuesday, James Howard Jackson was released from custody the next day "due to a clerical error." Authorities are working to rearrest him.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the results of FBI interviews of Iraqis living in the United States. The FBI says the information developed has helped with war planning. Many Iraqi Americans have said they're happy to be interviewed, but some critics say the process creates resentment among immigrants.

The Senate confirms the first Black woman as justice on the U.S. Supreme Court and also deals additional rebukes to Russia on trade.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu laments the hard time non-blockbusters have catching browsers' attention on bookstore shelves. He details the thought-process that a potential reader goes through in making a bold determination if he or she should actual buy a lesser-known work. It is this detail that gives us insight into the difficulties of authors. Codrescu's latest book is It was Today: New Poems, available from Coffee House Press.

This summer, Mars is making a historic appearance in the night sky, coming closer to Earth than at any time in human history. For space author and Morning Edition commentator Andrew Chaikin, the event became a quest to take a rare astronomical portrait. See Chaikin's prized photos of Mars and the moon.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage says that although U.S. administrator Paul Bremer remains in charge in Iraq, the country's interim governing council is gaining more say in the daily decision-making process. His comments come amid growing calls from the international community that the U.S. speed up the handover of power to the Iraqi people. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Armitage.

The United States says Iraq needs more security, and Iraqis have to do much of the job. Early efforts have focused on police retraining. But it could take another year and a half, U.S. officials say, to get as many trained police as needed. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy Florida and Tampa Electric Co. filed the proposals in order to add underground power lines and reduce outage threats from trees and other vegetation.

In 1975, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Alice Walker wrote an essay that helped lift from obscurity Zora Neale Hurston, the most widely published black woman author of the 1930s Harlem Renaissance. For Intersections, a series on artists and their inspirations, Walker tells NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor about the guiding role Hurston's work has played in her own art.

Americans accessing health care services in Canada would have to pay out of pocket, and likely would need to overcome extra travel and logistical hurdles.

American occupation authorities will lift restrictions on tens of thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, who lost their jobs in government and the armed forces following the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Chief administrator Paul Bremer says lifting the restrictions will speed the process of rebuilding the war-torn nation. NPR's Philip Reeves reports from Baghdad.

The federal rental aid program expects to distribute the rest of its money by mid-summer. Some cities have already run out of funding, pushing eviction filings higher than before the pandemic.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Carol Sanger, a professor at Columbia Law School, about the draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that could lead to Roe V. Wade being overturned.