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In September, 43 students disappeared in Mexico and were assumed dead after an alleged attack by police. NPR's Arun Rath talks to John Gibler about his continued reporting from Iguala, Mexico.

A former Massachusetts chemist is now behind bars because of sloppy drug testing that went on for years, compromising up to 190,000 criminal cases and costing the state millions of dollars. The scandal raises questions of accountability in forensic labs around the country.

The "prediction market" site Intrade's decision to close in the U.S. highlights how the company exists in a regulatory gray area, somewhere between trading and betting. Intrade says it hopes to operate legally in the U.S. eventually. In the meantime, American users must close their accounts by year's end.

Ex-Secretary of State Clinton, who has been under fire for her use of a personal email address while in office, has turned over 55,000 pages of her official correspondence to the State Department.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with New York Times "Your Money" columnist Ron Lieber, about free credit freezes the big credit reporting companies are required to provide for consumers.

MIT researchers initially said Uber and Lyft drivers were earning a median profit of $3.37 an hour. After Uber criticized the methodology, a co-author says it could actually be $8.55 to $10 an hour.

U.S. charities have received close to $2 billion to help in Haiti since the earthquake two years ago. But it's not easy to determine exactly how all that money is being spent and what kind of impact it is having.

According to a new NPR/Ipsos opioid poll, 71% of Americans surveyed also say the government should do more to curb the epidemic.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Elizabeth Paton of The New York Times about a revelation from Coleen Rooney, wife of footballer Wayne Rooney, about a friend leaking personal stories to tabloids.

Patrick Radden Keefe's new book begins with the 1972 disappearance of a 38-year-old widowed mother in Belfast, then spins into an epic account of Northern Ireland's bloody sectarian conflict.