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Bonds are selling off, and investors are "selling America," thanks to mounting worries over the national deficit.

A bail hearing in South Africa for Paralympic star and accused murderer Oscar Pistorius had members of the gallery gasping. Host Melissa Block talks with journalist Andrew Harding about a wild day of testimony and challenges.

The oil giant is paying billions of dollars to businesses hurt by the 2010 spill, but won't pay business owners hurt by a government drilling moratorium that was put in place after the spill.

The national moratorium on evictions expires in December. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with researcher Kathryn Leifheit, who linked evictions to increased coronavirus infections and deaths.

The federal action also has extended to RIT, but officials are not saying how many are affected or how.

In the U.S., possessing and selling marijuana is a federal crime, so banks have ignored this emerging market. In Canada, financial institutions are beginning to back corporate cannabis producers.

Thousands of coal miners who are suffering from an advanced stage of black lung disease fear that, if Congress doesn't act, a government fund set up to help them won't have enough money.

The day after a deadly attack, India announced it was closing a border with Pakistan, downgrading its diplomatic ties and suspending the Indus Waters Treaty. Pakistan denies involvement in the attack.

A jury concluded that The New York Times did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had argued that an error in a 2017 Times editorial damaged her reputation.

The latest developments from Israel, where the Israeli military continued airstrikes on Gaza and staged limited raids overnight.