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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the FBI to conduct a security check on the county courthouse and government center after Trump over the weekend decried investigations of him.

Pfizer has agreed to suspend sales of its painkiller Bextra, after U.S. and European regulators said the risk of serious side effects outweighed the benefits. Now, doctors must find alternative treatment for their patients. Michele Norris talks with Dr. Joshua Prager of the California Pain Medicine Center at UCLA.

Toys"R"Us, the nation’s largest seller of toys behind Wal-Mart, has increasingly seen competitors encroaching on its core toy business. Now the company is fighting back, expanding beyond just selling toys. As NPR's Jack Speer reports, the company’s new Geoffrey stores feature clothes, educational books and activity centers, in the hopes of attracting more customers.

The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is primarily symbolic, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies tells Renee Montagne. Cordesman emphasizes that Zarqawi was merely the most visible member of a large and fractured insurgency in Iraq.

The tribute project Anything Mose! breathes new life into the music of the late Mose Allison. We peer inside his blend of blues and jazz with ironic lyrics, and get stories from Allison's widow.

After a crisis, not all of the help that's given is necessary: People send stuffed animals when they should be sending diapers. New ways of managing donations are now getting the appropriate help.

Now a tropical depression, former Hurricane Julia drenched Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua.

After that mass shooting at a daycare center, NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Thai journalist Haitharat Phaholtap about the mystery surrounding the shooter's motives.

Charles laid claim to the center of American popular music on these 1962 classics, and ended up with some of the brashest and best-selling music of his career.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds the vast majority of children dying from COVID-19 are children of color.