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Robert Mueller testifies. Facebook pays a price for losing control of our data. Puerto Rico’s governor resigns. And fiscal hawks lose the plot over a new budget deal.

The music festival has been slowly unraveling since April, but might have found a new lease on life.

Iran successfully launched a medium-range missile On Wednesday, according to U.S. officials. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with David Sanger of The New York Times about Iran's missile program.

A prominent Russian gay rights activist was found killed last weekend. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Moscow-based reporter Anna Nemtsova about the case and its effect on the Russian LGBTQ community.

Harrison Duran, a 23-year-old college student at University of California, Merced, spent his summer internship hunting for dinosaur fossils.

Instagram is taking away the "likes" in some countries as part of a test. Host Scott Simon talks with Australian journalist Kumi Taguchi about how that's affecting the user experience.

A new study shows that private equity firms have hastened the failure and liquidation of retail businesses. Host Scott Simon talks with its co-author, Maggie Corser.

Brenda Song stars in Netflix's version of the Woman In Danger thriller, in which she is sent home with a stranger by the worst hospital in the world.

Before the men cycle across the finish line at the Tour de France, a group of women riders will finish the route. Host Scott Simon talks with Sara Beck, a member of the InternationElles team.

Greta Thunberg of Sweden is one of the most vocal climate change activists in the world.

Backers of a proposed quarter-cent sales tax increase for the arts are pinning their hopes on a May poll that showed Mecklenburg voters support the tax…

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Doug Taron of the Chicago Academy of Sciences why Chicagoans are seeing more lightning bugs this year.

The president of Tanzania has ordered that a major game reserve be split in two, and has banned hunting in the larger part of the reserve.

Weyes Blood's album Titanic Rising has already solidified itself as a contender for album of the year. Her vocals are soaring and pristine on the KCRW favorite "Andromeda."

The FBI says two suspects in the so-called "Pink Lady Bandit" bank robberies have been arrested at a Charlotte hotel.The FBI's Charlotte office said in a…

On Tuesday night WFAE’s "Charlotte Talks" will host a public conversation event at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church to discuss what can be done to…

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, about Dan Coats stepping down as director of national intelligence.

Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe is expected to be nominated director of national intelligence and has prosecuted terrorism cases. But he has far less experience than his predecessors.

In a seaside district of England, "Brexiteers" are cheering that one of their own is now prime minister. They have high expectations of Boris Johnson, and will be unforgiving if he fails.

Even if we weren't in need of another road-trippy-addiction memoir, Peter Kaldheim's book recounts his very human efforts to swim to shore with compassion and gratitude.