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Michael Lewis' new book The Big Short chronicles the 2008 financial collapse through the investors who realized what was happening to the U.S. economy while it was happening — and then made a fortune by betting against the markets.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Yonty Friesem of Columbia College Chicago about a new law in Illinois that requires high school students to receive lessons on media literacy.

Former President Trump said FBI agents executed an "unannounced raid" at his home in South Florida Monday. His son said it was related to documents taken from the White House when Trump left office.

On a recording, the L.A. City Council president made racist comments. There have been calls for her resignation and the episode has exposed the racial tensions that have affected politics in the city.

Led by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, the garage-rock band The Fugs became a pivotal player in the American underground of the mid- to late '60s. The group retired in 1969 but re-formed in the mid-'80s and has performed and recorded regularly ever since. The band is set to release what could be its last album.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was assaulted at their San Francisco home. There is a joint task force assigned to investigate and the intuder in custody.

Actor Anthony Rapp says he was a victim of assault and battery. Rapp says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.

The House today is voting on a plan pushed its Tea Party wing to slash $40 billion from food stamps. That's twice as much as the original House farm bill contemplated, and eight times as much as the Senate bill.

A year into Russia's war in Ukraine, China is treading a fine line in the conflict. The Biden administration says it's concerned China might give Russia "lethal support" for its campaign in Ukraine.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's trip to Ukraine sends a political message to U.S. voters as well as a legal one to Russia. And how crime and antisemitism are affecting the political landscape.