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Payments are increasingly being made digitally, using apps like Apple Pay and Venmo. Now, the U.S.government is considering whether to issue its own digital dollar.

Long-time adversaries Turkey and Armenia are talking about opening their border to more trade and travel. But it doesn't look like all the issues of the past will be dealt with yet.

Security analysts are concerned that Russia could launch cyberattacks against Ukraine, as it did in 2017. That could compromise government agencies, banks, and energy infrastructure.

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Chicago Tribune reporter Megan Crepeau about actor Jussie Smollett's courtroom testimony — denying allegations he masterminded a phony hate-crime attack.

In an interview with NPR, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission said he was aiming to unveil tougher rules for a hot investment crazed called SPACs by early next year.

Jonathan Eig's new book, Luckiest Man, looks at the life of New York Yankee hero Lou Gehrig, on and off the field. Gehrig was the unstoppable "Iron Horse" as he hammered home runs while playing in 2,130 straight games. But his life was cut short by the disease that now bears his name.

Can a band plagiarize itself? One listener in Canada has implied as much by taking two songs by the band Nickelback and superimposing them over one another to emphasize the similarity.

Drug crimes aren't exclusive to big cities. Laura Sullivan explores their growing impact on small-town America.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving says that with fresh terror warnings and political pressure over the Sept. 11 report, official Washington is staying at work this August.

The crisis in Ukraine is causing more food insecurity for people in Afghanistan, who are already going hungry in a country roiled by conflict, drought, pandemic and a freeze on national assets.