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  • NPR's Paris correspondent, Eleanor Beardsley, talks about being a reporter, mother and long-time resident in a city under attack.
  • Former Sen. George Mitchell's report on the use of performance-enhancing substances in Major League Baseball is out. Mitchell presented his findings Thursday — including the names of dozens of current and former players. What does it mean for baseball?
  • Friday is jobs day, when the monthly employment report comes out, but those numbers come with a big asterix, including the massive margin of error, and the revisions. But what does this say about the reports as an economic indicator?
  • We look at the implications of a new inspector general's report about the conduct of the FBI and James Comey during an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
  • Consumer Reports ranked the Toyota Prius the 2010 Green Car of the Year despite a recall from the world's No. 1 automaker. David Champion, senior director for Consumer Reports' Auto Test Center, discusses the process behind the rankings.
  • A group of lawmakers investigating Britain's phone-hacking scandal have published a report on how the crisis was handled. The report could be detrimental to News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and his son James. The investigation exposed cozy ties between media elites and politicians.
  • Nearly a quarter of Kentucky’s population is now covered by Medicaid, thanks in part to the state’s embrace of the Affordable Care Act. While fully funded…
  • on crime in post-Apartheid South Africa and what's being done about it... Today, she visits the black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, where young black residents have joined forces with white police to catch criminals. It's an unusual alliance between those who fought to overthrow Apartheid and those who fought to protect it. Soweto and the other black townships surrounding Johannesburg have a murder rate three times higher than that of New York City.
  • In reaction to a declining domestic marketplace, Avon, the world's largest cosmetic company, and other U.S. businesses have targeted a more global audience. The strategy has definitely worked for Avon, last year they made four-and-a-half billion dollars in profit from sales in 125 countries. One town on the Amazon has no doctor or dentist, but the 3,000 residents are served by six Avon representatives.
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would move ahead with an official impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The move follows a phone call Trump had with Ukraine's new president.
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