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Target is the latest retailer to announce it will stop accepting checks. The last day is July 15. The Federal Reserve says check-writing has declined by almost 75% since 2000.

Why suffer bug bites when you can stay inside and READ? NPR staffers suggest a trio of non-fiction: "The Showman," "Invisible Rulers," and "the Threshold of Dissent."

A Supreme Court decision striking down a bankruptcy deal also lifts a shield against lawsuits over the harms caused by the highly addictive opioid Oxycontin.

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. announces additional aid to Haiti on a lightning visit to the troubled Caribbean island.

Retail traders are still buying stocks as much as they were during the pandemic, subverting expectations that they would go away after people returned to work and their pre-COVID lives.

So much ice is melting at the Earth's poles that it's affecting the rotation of the planet, scientists say. Its spin is slowing down slightly, causing days to get longer.

Dozens more far-right rallies are planned across the United Kingdom on Wednesday, as police struggle to contain racist mob violence targeting immigrants, Muslims and people of color.

Two doctors and an alleged drug dealer are among the five charged in connection with Perry’s death. Federal authorities accuse them of supplying the actor with drugs that ultimately killed him.

The origin of supermassive black holes has stumped scientist for a long time. They now have the answer to this question: very massive seeds.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michelle Mello of Stanford Law School about how legally liable manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers can be for abuse of their products.