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The attorney general's policy breaks with Justice Department guidance of not interfering with elections that has stood for 40 years, Richard Pilger says.

To celebrate the launch of NPR's 2020 Book Concierge, each All Things Considered host will share a favorite book. Mary Louise Kelly's is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.

Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, researchers hope to document — and later recreate — historical scents and smell-scapes from as far back as the 16th century.

BP says the effort to clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be "largely complete" by the end of this year. But with the ruptured well still gushing crude, federal officials, scientists and many Louisiana residents say they'll be mopping up oil for years.

Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was accused of working on behalf of one of Mexico's deadliest cartels. On Tuesday, Attorney General Barr said the former general will be investigated by Mexican authorities.

The controversial deal hashed out between the Department of Justice and the maker of Oxycontin provides hundreds of millions of dollars of relief for communities hit hard by the opioid epidemic.

Mexico's former defense minister is back home after the U.S. dropped drug trafficking charges against him. The move raises questions about whether he'll face justice.

Melissa Block and Audie Cornish read listener responses to the All Things Considered series about what it means to be a man in America today.

"For the first time in history, nuclear weapons are going to be illegal in international law," says Elayne Whyte, who oversaw the treaty's creation.

He's been a "first-call" saxophonist in New York City for more than two decades. But this week, he's the one doing the calling. Wilson and his new quartet of old friends set up shop at the Vanguard.

In 1992, as Lincoln Center was making a big move into "America's classical music," Carnegie Hall created its own jazz orchestra. Trumpeter Jon Faddis led the big band at the Kennedy Center.

Around the country, people celebrated after a former Minneapolis police officer was convicted in the murder of George Floyd.

The Pasquotank County, N.C., Sheriff's Office said three deputies who fired shots will stay on leave pending investigations but that it's "obvious" from videos that four deputies didn't shoot.

The Boston Celtics are being sold for $6.1 billion. The sale is pending approval by the NBA. If approved, the purchase of the Celtics would be the largest of any sports franchise in the United States.

Argentine pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for his scores for Mission: Impossible and more than 200 other films and TV shows, including Bullitt, Mannix and Cool Hand Luke, has died.

The attorney general told The Associated Press on Tuesday neither Justice Department attorneys nor the FBI have substantiated any of the various claims about so-called fraud.

Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said the families of the students involved have been notified and that there is no danger to the community. This is an ongoing investigation.

Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, signed a law repealing the citizen's arrest law. The men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery are using it as part of their defense in the murder case.

Auctioneers hope it will sell for over $5.2 million, part of a sports collection that could fetch $20 million for the heirs of a man whose mom threw out his first baseball cards. He never got over it.

The crowd gasped when Robert Caslen, a former Army flag officer, called the graduating students "the newest alumni from the University of California." But his bungled speech didn't stop there.