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NPR's Cheryl Thompson speaks with Maurice Chammah of the Marshall Project to talk about the growing "constitutional sheriff" movement and what its aims are.

Compared to this time last year, we're all paying a lot more to use many kinds energy — whether it's gasoline for our cars or heating fuel for our homes.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the charges against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich "would make Lincoln roll over in his grave." Blagojevich was arrested Monday on charges he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.

Despite persistent drizzle, thousands gathered for the Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival.

The Trump administration has promised an overhaul of the federal tax code. Rachel Martin talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about what we know so far.

Irving Picard, a lawyer leading the liquidation the collapsed investment firm, says lawsuits and forensic accounting have gotten back almost 70 percent of what was feared lost — some $13 billion.

More details are emerging about Stephen Paddock, who perpetrated the massacre in Las Vegas. The reclusive professional gambler had few friends and made little impression on his neighbors.

Writer Michael Sokolove explains how college basketball programs manipulate young athletes for the benefit — and profit — of adults. His new book is The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino.

Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for violating baseball's drug policy. Major League Baseball has not given details of the substance involved, but Ramirez issued a statement saying a medication from a physician — not a steroid — was to blame.

Rachel Martin talks to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on President Trump's reasons behind tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. The tariffs have been criticized as too harsh.

Despite its reputation as a progressive employer, REI has balked at recognizing its newly unionized workers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber on what spring break looks like one year after the pandemic interrupted last year's celebrations.

Some doctors in Texas are so worried about the abortion bans, they hint to patients with pregnancy complications, "I've heard traveling to Colorado is really nice this time of year."

Jamilah, Zaynah and Latifah McBryde grew up wrestling one another in Buffalo, N.Y. Coaches recognized their talent, but they couldn't wear the required wrestling singlet due to their faith.

David Yoon's young adult debut follows Frank Li, a Korean American kid who concocts a plan to keep his strict parents from finding out that he's dating a non-Korean girl — what could go wrong?

Drivers have experienced historic sticker shock as they've filled up their tanks since the U.S. and Israel began military action against Iran. Floridians have paid higher prices in the past, but rarely have experienced such sudden price hikes. The same goes for gas station owners.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Wally Adeyemo, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary, about a week of instability for some banks and what this might mean for the economy as a whole.

In HBO's hit show "The Last Of Us," the world has been devastated by a pandemic caused by a deadly fungus. Is that even possible?

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with economist Howard Kunreuther, co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Process Center, about climate change's impact on the insurance industry.

The nation's former ruler hinted he would vote for the leader of the opposition movement, telling reporters on Sunday, "I cannot vote for those who have tormented me."

An NPR listener says they are ready to adopt a child and move on from in vitro fertilization. But their wife is focused on getting pregnant.

As the number of people seeking therapy soars during the pandemic, CVS has begun testing a model to offer counseling services at stores in the greater Tampa Bay region, Houston and Philadelphia.

For years, a secretive group has been purchasing land in Solano County, Calif., to create a utopian city for the tech elite. Locals are telling the techies to take their plan someplace else.

The jokes flew at the White House as President Joe Biden saluted the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Evening Masterworks: Silvestre Revueltas' La noche de los Mayas (The Night of the Mayans)