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Renee Montagne talks with former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell for an update on the 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in April by the extremist group Boko Haram.

Congress held its first hearing on "dark money," the donations to tax-exempt political groups that can keep donors' names secret. The star witness at the Senate committee was former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a vocal critic of the rulings that opened the door for the secret spending.

Robert Ressler spent his career researching crimes that were tough to understand. He thought that by figuring out how — and why — violent criminals worked, he could help police identify suspects. He came face to face with notorious killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Ressler died earlier this year. He was 76.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. John Heaton, president and chief medical officer of LCMC Health, about the state of the system's hospitals post-Hurricane Ida.

Three people were charged Wednesday with trying to sell confidential information from The Coca-Cola Co., including a sample of a new drink, to its rival, Pepsi. John Sicher, editor and publisher of Beverage Digest, talks with Lynn Neary about they case.

The body of Chief Justice William Rehnquist is lying in repose at the Supreme Court, where the public has been allowed to visit. The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin confirmation hearings for Rehnquist's proposed successor, John Roberts, next Monday.

We catch up on the story of comedian Dave Chappelle's disappearance. Michele Norris talks with Christopher John Farley, a senior editor at Time Magazine. Farley published an exclusive interview with Chappelle in this week's Time - just a week after many news outlets reported that Chappelle walked off the set of his Comedy Central show.

The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at hospitals in Maryland and more are expected later this week. Now those hospitals are reckoning with…

John Burnham Schwartz's latest novel, a complicated and emotionally commanding exploration of sorrow and catharsis, revisits the damaged characters of his 1998 book Reservation Road.

Nurse Maria Lim works in a rehabilitation facility in Orange County, Calif. She is an essential worker who gives us her aural journal this week.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is boosting the level of troops in Afghanistan to confront forces loyal to the Taliban. U.S. Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland discusses developments with John Ydstie.

High oil prices are leading to record earnings at companies like Exxon Mobil, which reported a first-quarter profit of $8.4 billion. Energy analyst John Olson talks with Steve Inskeep about where oil companies are spending their profits.

A truck bomb in a northern Iraq farming town populated by Shiite ethnic Turks claims more than 100 lives. Elsewhere, several more Americans lost their lives in separate incidents, and the Iraqi parliament continues to struggle over an oil law.

Lehman Brothers shares are down amid reports the Treasury Department won't come to its rescue. Treasury and Fed officials are reportedly helping Lehman find a white knight, but it's not clear yet whether Lehman will be kept intact or sold in pieces.

Pope Francis arrives in Colombia on Tuesday. His visit comes as the South American nation is working through a peace deal that ended a 50-year guerrilla war. The pope supported the peace deal, but some claim he hasn't supported more justice for the war's victims.

Sen. McCain frequently clashed with President Trump, especially over efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017.

Usha Vance grew up in San Diego and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after Yale Law School. Here's what else to know about the wife of the Republican vice presidential candidate.

The second preliminary injunction, issued by Seattle U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, indefinitely blocks President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship. It comes a day after a Maryland federal judge issued a similar ruling.

Farmers in the path of Hurricane Helene lost a lot of land, crops and equipment, but there isn't much immediate financial help available to them.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke Wednesday of comments by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about the abortion views of the Supreme Court's two Trump-appointed justices.