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The Justice Department will be probing the Phoenix police's use of force and their treatment of the city's homeless.

NPR's Scott Simon details how many of Brazil's açaí berries are harvested: by children.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Reissues are the bread and butter of the jazz record business, but the artists whose talents made the records possible often miss out on the royalties that could help sustain them in old age.

The decision to suspend Pete Arredondo follows the police response to the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary which has been called an "abject failure."

Most people think of the Cold War as a long, glacial period, but in the beginning it was dangerously unstable. Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie, says there might well have been nuclear war — had it not been for one man: the subject of his latest book, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon.

You don't usually find Democrats picking up the gauntlet to weaken provisions of a law originally intended to prevent the concentration of capital into hereditary wealthy elites. But State Sen. Dave Koehler of Peoria said there's a sound economic development reason to do so.

Patients, who've generally been schooled in their doctors' passive "don't call us, we'll call you" approach to medical care, need to snap out of it and start taking an active role in making sure test results get communicated both to them and to other doctors when necessary.

Dave Itzkoff's new book, Mad as Hell, chronicles the making of the movie Network. NPR commentator Ted Koppel says Network was meant as a satire, but seems like "inspired prophecy" now.

The federal housing agency says its 1968 building faces more than $500 million in deferred maintenance. It also says current staff take up only half the space.