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A drug dealer's career serves as a timeline for the evolution of the opiate epidemic in America from pills to heroin.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Soumaya Keynes, editor for The Economist and host of Trade Talks podcast, about how the ongoing trade battle between the U.S. and China is impacting consumers.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Kip Eideberg of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers about why the U.S. can't simply do business with other countries instead of China, as the president suggested.

In an interview with WFAE's Morning Edition last week, Mecklenburg State Sen. Dan Bishop was asked about an Associated Press analysis from 2017 that…

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Kurt Wagner, a reporter covering Facebook and social media for the tech website Recode, about Facebook's plans to improve privacy.

Some companies give away money as a reward for reading the fine print in online user agreements. Others impose biblical punishments for not reading it.

The director who has boomeranged from better-regarded films to ones treated much less kindly barely wants to own this crime thriller. But for fans of his work, there are sequences to admire.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Casey Newton of The Verge about Facebook joining the dating game. Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement Tuesday at F8 and some say the timing of the announcement seems a little more than ironic.

In the face of overwhelming support for the labor drive, the troubled media company relented, saying Sunday that it will negotiate with journalists at its Chicago-area publications.

The White House faces a Monday night deadline to decide if it will extend exemptions or impose tariffs on aluminum and steel for a number of U.S. allies, including the European Union. Elmar Brok, a member of the European Parliament from Germany, talks to NPR's Audie Cornish about the EU's options.

Track and field's world governing body announced new restrictions on female athletes who naturally produce higher-than-normal levels of testosterone.

Crude oil prices have been rising for months and could climb higher now that the United States is pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal.

Up for an Oscar for best foreign-language film, Hungary's tale of two workers linked by shared dreams shifts between whimsy and visceral violence without making us care about either.

More than 1,000 U.S. beer drinkers surveyed say they would pay about $1.30 more for a six-pack of beer if it was produced at a brewery that invests in water conservation or solar power.

Sesame Workshop is creating educational programming for refugee children around the world. But first, it's doing a lot of homework to make sure the lessons it teaches are the right ones.

A local version of Spam. Smartphones, or two, for everyone. Amid escalating U.S.-North Korea tensions, former journalist Jean Lee visits Pyongyang and finds that, at least there, life has improved.

Normally, critical reviews can kill a Broadway show, but not so for kid-focused musicals. Anastasiaand Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryare currently on Broadway, vying for the kid seal of approval.

Pitt plays a semi-clueless four-star general charged with overseeing the war effort in Afghanistan. He says the film uses comedy to lure viewers in, then shows them some harsh realities.

Snap — expected to be valued at more than $20 billion when it goes public — may be the first company to use the term "sexting" in an initial public offering filing with the SEC.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jeff Ehrlich, deputy enforcement director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about the investigation into Wells Fargo. Last week, federal regulators fined the bank more than $185 million dollars for opening accounts to meet intense sales goals.