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The Court on Tuesday takes up a challenge to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. NPR's Nina Totenberg says the case concerns rules for congressional candidates who personally spend $350,000 or more.

Cutting down forests in the Amazon destroys a natural means of absorbing carbon dioxide. But new roads in the jungle also create new pools of standing water — ideal breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Forecasts call for gas prices to keep rising. A new survey says 44 percent of new car shoppers are responding by eating out less, and 40 percent plan to trim their entertainment budgets.

Angry, depressed, or flat out bored by successive COVID lockdowns, Chinese writers are adapting Western literature classics to amuse themselves.

For decades, television networks have relied on ratings to sell advertisements. Now, a company, NeuroFocus, studies the brain's responses to TV scenes and commercials to find out more about a viewer's attention span, memory and level of engagement.

A year after President Biden announced plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, NPR's A Martinez talks to Cecilia Muñoz, a former Obama White House official, about how Afghan refugees are faring.

One of Europe's poorest countries, Moldova has a separatist region that hosts 1,500 Russian troops. Since the Ukraine war, Moldova has applied to join the EU, even as it keeps a policy of neutrality.

Millions of Americans are at risk of eviction, and billions of dollars in help from Congress isn't reaching most of them. What's taking so long for people who need rental assistance to get the money?

Thirty years ago, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were gunned down in City Hall. At the heart of the tragedy: tensions over a city's changing face.

The Big Three automakers are petitioning Congress for a $25 billion lifeline, but growing opposition makes the outlook for the bailout uncertain. Analysts say both Ford and GM will need to restructure and continue their efforts to focus and improve their product lineup regardless of whether government help comes through.