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How can you stay digitally connected without feeling intruded upon? WNYC's five-day plan hopes to take the mystery out of digital privacy and improve lives both online and off.

Snap — expected to be valued at more than $20 billion when it goes public — may be the first company to use the term "sexting" in an initial public offering filing with the SEC.

A lawsuit filed Monday describes defendants waiting months in jail before meeting a lawyer, and some defendants who don't get a lawyer at all. Similar suits are underway in at least six other states.

Republican leaders failed to find enough votes to bring the House speaker's debt-ceiling measure to a vote but planned to try again today. They are under tremendous pressure to pass something, otherwise the Democratic-led Senate could pass a bill first, which would increase the president's leverage.

At least 44 people across six states were killed by the weekend storms, which left a swath of destruction unmatched by any spring storm since the mid-1980s. The search for victims continued Monday amid stories of miraculous escapes. In North Carolina, one of the hardest-hit states, residents are helping each other with cleanup and recovery.

In St. Louis, Ray Meyer lost his banking job two years ago and Casaundra Bronner has been unemployed since March 2010. They keep hustling, applying for jobs and networking, but it seems that the longer they're out of work, the harder it is to get back in.

Despite years of research, there is not a single conclusive study linking cellphone use and brain cancer — or one that rules it out. Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the ongoing quest to determine whether cellphones are carcinogenic, and why finding specific causes of cancer is so difficult.

Many in the United States are embracing the royal wedding as if it was America's own. One study says U.S. media is devoting more coverage to the event than their British counterparts. But if you listen carefully amid all the clatter, you can hear a few voices representing America's anti-monarchical origins.

Yesterday the EPA announced that it needed more time to write new pollution rules for industrial machinery. Bradford Plumer of The New Republic argues that the EPA caved to attacks from industry as well as from lawmakers who worry that the new rules will be too expensive. This, Plumer argues, is a preview of how environmental policy will be enacted for the next two years.

It can be expensive to learn to be an airplane mechanic, but once you become one, there are higher-paying opportunities in places like the military or the natural gas industry. For one airplane maintenance facility in Oklahoma City, that means hundreds of jobs go unfilled.