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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist."

We look at Friday night's shakeup at the Pentagon, with the announcement of more staff cuts and a change in a top leadership position.

This week New York State prisons saw strikes, prison unrest and correctional officer charges in the beating death of an inmate.

We look at President Trump's embrace of Vladimir Putin as he turns his back on U.S. ally, Ukraine, as well as mass firings at government agencies and how that will affect the services they provide.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory detected an explosion at Korovin Volcano at 7:26 p.m. Thursday, and moved the Aviation Color Code and Alert Level to “watch”. Officials later reduced the threat level to advisory status.

Sarah Silverman's musical "The Bedwetter" is largely autobiographical but she says its themes of self-awareness and taking care of one another are especially important right now.

Steve Inskeep talks with Jason Willick, a Washington Post columnist who argues the Trump administration needlessly created a scandal in its handling of corruption charges facing NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

Elon Musk is working to slash federal spending while also promoting his business ventures. Experts in government ethics are worried he's acting in his own best interest and not in the country's.

FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?

This spring, MLB players can challenge ball and strike calls. The camera-based system is only an experiment for now — but it has the baseball world wondering where to draw the line with technology.