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E-cigarette maker Juul wanted to disrupt Big Tobacco, and largely succeeded before politicians, regulators and experts accused it of stoking the youth vaping epidemic.

Shifting to clean electricity will require many more major transmission lines, something residents of some areas may not want. The infrastructure bill in Congress could make the lines easier to build.

Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks are among the artists who have sold off all or part of their back catalogs. Why are they forgoing future royalties and creative control over their songs?

Phyllis Fischer, a 40-year-old wife and mother, is drawn into a liberating relationship with a much younger man. She soon realizes that perhaps she wasn't so content as she thought.

19th-century Harvard students needed botanical models. They turned to a pair of glass artists who specialized in invertebrate zoology. The results, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer, are so lifelike that they've inspired poets and novelists.

Rising prices, stranded tourists and lines at ATMs are just some of the ways ordinary Russians are seeing repercussions from sanctions and restrictions imposed on their country for invading Ukraine.

Many Iraqi Muslims won't be able to attend traditional Friday prayers. A curfew is in effect in Baghdad and three provinces following sectarian violence sparked by the destruction of a Shiite mosque -- and more than 200 deaths.

Tuesday is the final day for voters to cast a ballot in the Georgia primaries. The most watched races are for governor, U.S. Senate and secretary of state.

When the Federal Reserve meets Tuesday and Wednesday, the big question will be how much the Fed will raise rates to tame inflation. NPR's A Martinez asks David Wessel of the Brookings Institution.

Wisconsin's $4.5 billion deal with Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn is the largest a state has ever signed with a foreign company. Are such tax-incentive deals effective ways to gain much-needed jobs?