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NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with journalist Chabeli Carrazana about the latest item to become scarce due to supply chain issues: tampons.

Amazon.com is launching its own online TV show to sell books, music and movies. With comedian Bill Maher as the host, the Internet company's weekly Amazon Fishbowl hopes to make its mark in the late-night talk show landscape with interviews of artists and authors.

Efforts to ban congressional stock trading have stalled for years. But a group of bipartisan lawmakers has a new consensus plan and wants a vote to show lawmakers aren't profiting from their roles.

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 170 years ago.

On July 12, 1967, a rumor that police had beaten a black cabdriver to death triggered five days of looting and rioting in Newark, N.J. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka talks with Steve Inskeep.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Mario Tapia, founder of the Latino Center on Aging, and Maria Aranda of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging, about quality care issues once a diagnosis is made.

Some question the need for a costly pill that's basically made of peanut flour. But with standardized capsules, more peanut allergy sufferers could gain access to a treatment now available to few.

Consumer Reports expressed concern about high levels of lead in some two dozen protein powders, but only with repeated high exposure. Here's what to know before you make your next grocery run.

Veterans of the Soviet Union's unsuccessful intervention in Afghanistan give their views about the U.S. experience there. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989. The U.S. pulled out last month.

President Trump is passing the buck on testing and plans to "reopen" states, and many of governors don't like it.

Over initial objections by House GOP leaders, the House is expected to take up immigration legislation next month that threatens to further divide the party in the middle of an election year.

Former Justice Department officials described the relentless pressure Trump put on them to find evidence of voter fraud when it didn't exist and a tense showdown in the Oval Office.

Images of DNA and genetic technology are everywhere, from the .J. Simpson trial to advertisements for blue jeans to television commercials or automobiles and skin care products. Liane Hansen speaks with Dr. Dorothy elkin, Professor of Sociology and Law at New York University about these and ther issues brought up in her book, "The DNA Mystique." (W.H. Freeman and ompany)

Commentator Stuart Cheifet says that the computer industry is unlike any other ...after consumers spend thousands of dollars on new products, those investments become obsolete in eighteen months...and rather than offer trade ins or recalls, you are just expected to spend more money.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reviews possible criminal and civil court actions that could be taken in relation to the Firestone tire failures. Both federal and state criminal charges seem unlikely. But several southern states are investigating possible civil suits, saying the tire maker should have reported tire failures and suspicions that the products might be defective.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Debbie Elliott about the prospect that tobacco companies will be able to reduce or overturn the huge damage award in the Florida smokers class action suit. The companies say they will file an immediate appeal to the Friday jury verdict, which awards 145 Billion dollars in damages to smokers whose health was harmed by smoking tobacco products.

NPR's John Ydstie reports that once again the economy has outperformed expectations. The nation's gross domestic product increased five-point-two-percent in the second quarter, a much faster pace than most economists expected and a bit faster than growth in the first quarter. But even as overall growth sped up, inflation cooled off.

One-hundred-thirty prisoners in Washington and Oregon volunteered in the 1960s and 1970's to participate in a federally sponsored experiment to determine the affects of radiation on sperm production. After the experiments, they received vasectomies. Now they are seeking compensation from the federal government, saying they were coerced into taking part in the experiments. From KOPB in Portland Oregon, Jeff Brady reports.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Caracas, Venezuela, where high ranking representatives of oil exporting countries are gathering for a summit. OPEC leaders will discuss how to respond to demands for increasing oil production, as a way of lowering petroleum prices. They're not expected to take any action that would drive oil prices below twenty-five dollars a barrel.

Host Alex Chadwick talks with French-born medical anthropologist, Clotaire Rapaille, who's made a career of studying why people decide to buy certain products or vote for particular political candidates. Rapaille says he's cracked the code to understanding American culture.