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A boy in Oklahoma reeled in an alarmingly weird catch this past weekend: a pacu, the South American fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose humanlike teeth have long struck fear in swimmers.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald says he and his team weighed the public's interest against the potential harm to innocent people when deciding how many of Edward Snowden's leaked documents to make public.

In Tom Perrotta's new novel, Mrs. Fletcher, the title character is a single empty nester looking to reinvent herself. Perrotta tells NPR's Don Gonyea about Eve Fletcher's transformation.

When the beloved red Muppet asked people how they were doing, they responded with honesty — and, in some cases, despair. Elmo replied to many messages with encouragement and empathy.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn talks to investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel about his new book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.

Large portions of the Internet have declared 2016 one of the worst years ever. That's probably an inaccurate assessment, but it still says a lot about how we live online.

Charlotte the ray was touted as a case of asexual reproduction. Her aquarium now says she's actually sick with a rare disease — not pregnant. "This is a very weird story," an expert tells NPR.

The Syrian provincial capital of Raqqa is the first city to fall entirely to rebels who are fighting to bring down President Bashar Assad's regime. We have the story of Mohammad Abdel Aziz, who witnessed the fall of Raqqa from inside a prison cell.

Google's ad monopoly is like a "big Wall Street bank owning the New York Stock Exchange," Rohit Chopra, former Federal Trade Commission commissioner told Morning Edition.

The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million.