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The New York Times reported Friday that the CIA hired private contractors from Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill senior al-Qaida members. Mark Mazzetti, national security Correspondent for the newspaper, says contractors for the company protect and help operate a base in Pakistan and another in Afghanistan.

Automaker Toyota announced Tuesday that it's recalling about 437,000 Priuses and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems. David Champion, senior director of automotive testing for Consumer Reports, discusses how the braking system for the Prius works.

Police in Cambridge, Mass., have released the tapes of a 911 call and radio dispatches that led officers to the home of Henry Louis Gates Jr., where the Harvard scholar was arrested for disorderly conduct two weeks ago.

The nation's unemployment rate in February was 8.1 percent. The Labor Department reports more than 651,000 jobs were eliminated last month. Employers are cutting their payrolls and looking for other ways to cut costs as the recession takes a bite out of their sales and profits.

The British police have launched a new inquiry into claims of illegal phone-hacking by journalists at one of the country's biggest newspapers. Reporters at the News of the World, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., are alleged to have hacked into the voicemails of members of the royal family, senior politicians and media celebrities, hoping to discover scandalous details of their private lives. Although News Corp. initially denied the allegations, the affair has led to the resignation of the prime minister's head of media, a former News of the World editor, and the sacking of a senior editor at the paper.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. in 2022 – while still high – went back to where it was before deaths surged during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest CDC report.

Robert Hur is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee on his investigation into President Biden's handling of classified documents.

Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.

New details from a Census survey shows just how much more diverse the American electorate is becoming, with political implications still to come.

NPR's A Martinez talks to retired Col. Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about a Pentagon report that thousands of U.S. weapons are missing in Ukraine.