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NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Ronald Deibert of The Citizen Lab about a new report he published entitled "Uncovering Webloc," which is about how ad-based technology is used to surveil people.

The suspect of the shooting at Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner is described as a "very smart" by students he mentored in Southern California.

The fragile ceasefire agreement was tested again on Friday after Iran refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel and Hezbollah traded strikes in Lebanon, and Kuwait was attacked with drones.

Pakistan has acted as a mediator between Washington D.C. and Tehran over the last few weeks, and helped broker the ceasefire agreement this week. NPR's Juana Summers talks to Elizabeth Threlkeld, a senior fellow and director at the Stimson Center, about why Pakistan decided to step into this role.

The average refund so far is $350 more than last year at this time, despite projections that it would be closer to $1,000 due to Republican-led tax changes as part of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The US and Israel are facing global condemnation for attacking Iran. Human Rights Watch says the deadly attack on a girls' school must be investigated as a war crime.

Meyers, who died March 7, helped shape Tex-Mex music with the '60s band Sir Douglas Quintet and then with the Texas Tornados. His signature sound was on the vox organ. Originally broadcast in 1990.

In his book, "The Know-It-Alls," journalist Noam Cohen says Silicon Valley billionaires have taken a wrecking ball to many facets of society all in the name of profit.

Democrat Analilia Mejía won a special election Thursday to fill the House seat vacated by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

The 31-year-old teacher and engineer from California sent an alleged message to family members saying that he wanted to target administration officials.

On this week's episode of "Sights + Sounds Picks," actor Don Reed gives his arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.

An inquiry found that a mass killing by a British teenager in 2024 at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class could have been prevented if his parents and state agencies had acted on his violence fixation.