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Takeaways from a hearing include: senators are frustrated with Instagram for not moving more quickly to protect young users and the CEO maintains the platform does more good than harm.

From our panel of public-radio hosts to you: a hand-picked sampler of free downloads, including new music from Son Little, Ty Segall, Rome Fortune, Kaytranada, Allo Darlin' and more.

House Republicans altered their health care bill to let states decide what coverage is required. That would make it harder to buy coverage for childbirth or chronic illness, analysts say.

President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017North Carolina's largest mental health care provider has been accused of misuse of public funds. Mike Collins looks into the…

The latest U.N. report says if climate goals aren't met over the next couple of decades, there will be a severe impact on humanity. Guest host David Boraks and our panel of guests discuss the gravity of this report, the impact on climate plans in North Carolina and Charlotte, and what the average person should focus on to make a change.

This is peak season for agritourism. That’s something small family farms engage in to diversify their income so they can compete with big commercial enterprises. Almost 1,000 farms in our state are in the agritourism business. We examine why this number is growing, look at the benefits and barriers to farmers, explore how all this works, and more.

Eric Conn was supposed to learn his sentence Friday. He's the Kentucky man who federal authorities say perpetrated the largest fraud in Social Security history. The problem is, he has disappeared.

For the first time in its history, the Kentucky Derby has disqualified the horse that crossed the finish line first, Maximum Security. That gave the victory to Country House.

Mike Pesca talks to Robert Siegel about the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

"The Grand Jury is meant to be a secretive body," Attorney General Daniel Cameron says in a statement. "It's apparent that the public interest in this case isn't going to allow that to happen."

NPR's Steve Isnkeep talks Kentucky Public Radio's Divya Karthikeyan about the election results in Kentucky.

Ahead of Super Tuesday, NPR asked people on social media to tell us if they and their special someone were supporting different primary candidates. Call it "domestic politics." We're going to hear from a few of them before they head in to caucus or vote. First: Democrats Robin and Douglas Garrison in Englewood, Colo.

President Trump tours a Pennsylvania petrochemical plant Tuesday to highlight the U.S. energy boom. Trump claims credit for surging oil and gas production, but the trend began before he took office.

The Pentagon said a Space Brigade sergeant was killed and the price of oil increased after Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader and then launched new attacks at Israel and Gulf states.

Gerry Anderson, the man who created the iconic TV series Thunderbirds in the 1960s, has died, the BBC reports. Anderson, whose work was honored by a special set of moving-image stamps in Britain last year, had suffered from Alzheimer's Disease.

E-mail and other electronic communications have dramatically changed the contemporary legal landscape. Some estimate that more than 90 percent of a lawsuit's cost can come from sorting through e-mails and other electronic documents.

From history's shadows, these high-quality soul tracks all feature women who deserve to be heard.

One of the new characters in the latest Star Wars, BB-8, is one adorable droid. With only a sketch of the final product, its creators didn't know how much fuss would come from the harmless robot.

After 232 years, the United States has produced its last penny in a cost-cutting move. The last one was minted in Philadelphia Wednesday.