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NPR's David Greene talks to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey about why she opposes the agreement with Purdue Pharma that settles the company's role in the opioid epidemic.

How are the calls to deport Nicki Minaj to Trinidad and the ICE shooting in Minneapolis related? They illustrate the contradictions that come up when people try to cherry pick applications of the law.

Clearing its first major hurdle, a Jefferson County judge ruled Monday the victims of the 2023 Old National Bank shooting and their families have the right to sue the gun seller and manufacturer who furnished the shooter.

Kentucky election officials say no one has reported pre-filled ballots after a picture circulated widely online appeared to show a small dot on a Kentucky ballot, marking the bubble beside Vice President Kamala Harris’s name.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Brad Smith, Microsoft president, about the cyber-offensive American intelligence officials say Russia has undertaken.

Law enforcement in Chicago trained for worst-case scenarios at the DNC. Three thousand officers trained on mass-arrests, and a court has been revived to rapidly process up to 90 people at a time.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Freyja Steingrímsdóttir, the communications director for the Icelandic Federation of Public Workers. The union helped organize a strike to protest gender inequality.

Democrats and Republicans have put forward competing health care bills in Congress to address rising costs, but both are expected to fail.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Leonard Rubenstein of Johns Hopkins University about the unprecedented Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, and what international law could do to protect them.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Rachel Burns, author of a new report assessing what changes to the Free Application for Federal Aid could mean for students in the 2024-25 academic year.