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MRIs done early for uncomplicated low back pain and routine vitamin D tests "just to be thorough" are considered "low-value care" and can lead to further testing that can cost patients thousands.

Adidas placed its relationship with the rapper under review earlier this month. And while he's since doubled down, the company hasn't given an update — and continues to release new Yeezy products.

Suicide is the leading cause of gun-related deaths in the United States. But it's often only an afterthought in the public debate about gun violence.

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London on an angry public debate over whether pedophiles should be publicly identified. Street mobs have forced wrongly accused men into hiding. Police blame lurid accounts of pedophile crimes in the tabloid press.

A new report by the General Accounting Office says that there could be as many as a quarter of a million attempts by computer hackers to access the Defense Department's computer system every year, and more than half of them are successful. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.

John Parker was a slave, an abolitionist and a businessman. Recently, his memoirs were discovered and published, providing a vivid account of this remarkable man's life. Actor Mississippi Charles Bevel reads excerpts from Parker's book.

Supporters and opponents of President Bush's proposals for private Social Security accounts are running campaign-style ads -- some of which include misleading claims.

An ancient fraternity of assassins, a timid accountant, and Angelina Jolie — in a summer-movie mishmash from the director of the head-trippy vampire opus Night Watch.