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Nigeria is in the middle of a cash crisis as the country attempts to replace its old currency with a new one — leaving many cashless and furious.

The Fairness Project has won campaigns to raise the minimum wage and expand Medicaid in nine states dominated by Republicans. Next is abortion. But there's growing pushback from state lawmakers.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., about his visit to Taiwan with a bipartisan delegation and if the U.S. approach of "strategic ambiguity" is effective in China-Taiwan relations.

The Sentencing Commission is considering changing how federal prisoners can request compassionate release, a program essential to inmates with a terminally illness or other extraordinary circumstance.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Neil Clarke, editor-in-chief of the renowned literary journal Clarkesworld, about the deluge of submissions written by artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT.

The salacious murder trial of a prominent South Carolina attorney took a new twist when Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense in the killings of his wife and son.

Actor Jonathan Majors is already part of the conversation for next year's Oscars. Ayesha Rascoe looks at how his career has taken off, with two big movies out now and another on the way.

Uri Bram wrote an extensive article for The Atlantic on a sure-fire cure for the hiccups.

Today marks one year since Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin shows no sign of backing down.

Ari Shapiro of NPR's All Things Considered talks with Morning Edition's Leila Fadel about twins who were rescued from Kyiv early in the war and how they are faring as they turn a year old.