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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Leyla McCalla at the South by Southwest festival about her latest album, The Capitalist Blues.

Could government agents really get access to all your private data in less than a minute? Experts say no but warn we are moving in that direction.

Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin talks with Dan Kennedy, author of the novel American Spirit, which features a protagonist who is a little lost. In his effort to get un-lost, he takes on a crazy trip that includes a stint as a drug dealer, enrolls in a ceramics class and looks for some grand life plan in the skies over Yellowstone Park.

Fox News and the Associated Press are upending a quarter century of how elections are measured — and races called — launching a new approach for this fall's midterm elections.

The president seems intent on keeping everyone on their toes, but it's not at all clear that there's a strategy behind it all.

Early in the pandemic, shortages of N95 respirators and other medical gear prompted panic across the world. A year later, the masks still aren't widely available to U.S. consumers.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with three women about having their first child during a pandemic and what they've learned.

Religious rules guiding Catholic health care systems often mean their doctors can't prescribe contraceptives or perform tubal ligations. And sometimes that leaves patients with few other options.

The daughter of a Yu'pik mom and a dad from Nebraska, Peltola defeated Sarah Palin in a special election. She'll be the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. House in 50 years.

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for charitable passersby to purchase bread for them.