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Last week, BuzzFeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith defended his organization's decision to publish the Russia dossier. He talks to NPR's Michel Martin about how the move changed BuzzFeed's approach to journalism.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine, about inventing memories. False reports Monday said a man was shot by Baltimore police.

Here, five takeaways from a week when the Trump administration has had to deal with the Signal chat leak, announced new tariffs and made more deportations.

In battleground states this year, Democrats and Republicans aren't only trying to win, they're also trying to lose by less in the counties they lost in 2020.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ashley Whillans, psychologist at Harvard Business School, about why many people care deeply about climate change but are slow to adopt climate-friendly behaviors.

Several southern states including Georgia and Mississippi have enacted similar laws requiring employers to check the immigration status of new hires....

Governor Ron DeSantis signed a tax bill Wednesday that is estimated to save Florida families nearly $47 million during two sales tax holidays. Another...

Britain opted out of the euro, but it's by no means protected from the eurozone troubles. Declining demand on the continent means fewer British exports. The picture is particularly bleak in places like Hull — a port city with one of the highest rates of youth unemployment in Britain.

Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, who's a candidate for the 2020 presidential election, has endorsed "Medicare for all." But the details of what that means are rather elusive.

This month the public library in Worcester, Mass., is letting people pay any lost and damage fees with cat photos. The program is meant to help library borrowers who might not be able to pay.

This month the public library in Worcester, Mass., is letting people pay any lost and damage fees with cat photos. The program is meant to help library borrowers who might not be able to pay.

For many Ukrainians, there can be no negotiated peace with Russia. Evidence and accounts of atrocities committed by Russian forces have left them unwilling to consider a diplomatic solution.

In the greater Tampa Bay region there were 1,168 new cases of the coronavirus reported by the state on Saturday and 14 deaths, including nine in Hillsborough County.

"Doing this is not a matter of politics. This is human lives," says Niubis Robaina.

Once a standard fixture at every gas station, paper maps have all but folded in the digital age. But there are places that can baffle your high-tech gadgets. In Maine, weekend explorers might want to take along a map in addition to their GPS unit.

Evening Masterworks: Ludwig Van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 "Spring"

Writer Judith Shulevitz started observing Shabbat because of her own ambivalence about the traditional weekly day of rest. Her own experiences with the ritual — as well as its larger historical context — are examined in her new book, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time.

Gap health insurance plans are meant to cover one-time events. When the health care law required some form of major medical insurance, it was thought the need for gap coverage would disappear.

Agriculture generates hundreds of millions of dollars per year for this nation. But with water being diverted to Cape Town and expected to run out in April, farmers are preparing for the worst.

More than 11,000 small businesses closed in the U.K. last year. Many smaller shops could not keep up with higher energy costs, inflation and competition from online retailers.

For much of this year, Sara Goodrich of Lakeland has gone without health insurance -- despite trying over and over again to complete enrollment on...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Tara Setmayer, senior adviser to the Lincoln Project, a Republican political action committee, about how election deniers fared in Tuesday's elections.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Twin Cities Pride Executive Director Andi Otto about partnering with corporations amid efforts to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Newark Mayor Sharpe James has announced he will not seek a sixth term, ending a 20-year legacy in office. James' slender victory over rival Cory Booker in the 2002 mayoral race was chronicled in the Oscar-nominated documentary Street Fight. Madeleine Brand speaks to Street Fight director Marshall Curry about Sharpe and Newark's political future.