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The study by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly 1 in 6 young people aged 12 to 17 has received a sexually suggestive picture via cell phone. Report says boys and girls are equally likely to send, receive suggestive pictures on their phones.

A couple of weeks ago, we previewed the upcoming auction of a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex named Samson. Well, Samson hit the auction block on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday, but the results were not what its keepers had hoped. Thomas Lindgren, co-director of natural history for Bonhams and Butterfields auctioneers, gives host Guy Raz the scoop.

Employers shed 524,000 jobs in December. For all of 2008, the economy lost a net total of 2.6 million jobs. The lion's share of the cuts — 1.9 million jobs — came during the last four months of 2008.

Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is one of the first lawmakers to handle President Obama's proposed $3.6 trillion budget — which carries trillions of dollars in projected deficits. Conrad is working to cut out some of that debt.

The 229-202 vote in the Democratic-controlled chamber was largely along party lines, with nine GOP members joining Democrats. What happens next is up to the Justice Department.

More than 4.3 million children have fled their homes in the month since Russia invaded Ukraine, according to UNICEF. It warns that consequences could last for generations to come.

A new study says the current climate crisis is a "severe threat" to the safety of younger generations, who will experience far more extreme climate events such as heat waves, wildfires and floods.

More than 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction and we're on the quest to select just one winner. Until then, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz presents this week's stand out stories: Pilgrims by Catherine Carberry from Metuchen, N.J., and Fireflies, by Delia Read from Fairfax, Calif. To see these stories and others go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.

The Los Angeles International Airport was recently named one of the world's 10 worst airports, along with Rangoon and Baghdad. But over the next decade, the aging airport will get a $4 billion to $6 billion overhaul.

Don Siegelman wants the Alabama governorship back. First, he has to get by a tough opponent, Lucy Baxley, in the June 6 Democratic primary. And there's one more thing: He faces trial on corruption charges.