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  • IBM's Watson analyzes a Twitter account of an unnamed user, breaking down needs, values and five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism (aka emotional range).
    I Asked A Computer To Be My Life Coach
    Your online habits leave a constant digital trail. What does it say about the real you? I gave the world's most famous computer keys to my online life to see what it could tell me, about me.
  • Martin Shkreli was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals when the company boosted the price of a drug by 5,000 percent. He has since resigned.
    A Peek Inside Turing Pharmaceuticals: 'Another $7.2 Million. Pow!'
    Congressional investigators have pried loose emails showing how the company's executives anticipated huge profits from a 5,000 percent drug price increase. They were blindsided by the blowback.
  • Limericks
    Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks ... Spirited relationship, Uber Black, beercuzi.
  • Trump Visits Capitol Hill To Rally Support For House Republicans' Tax Bill
    House Republicans passed their version of a tax overhaul today, as President Trump visited Capitol Hill to rally support for it. But prospects for a tax bill in the Senate are looking less certain.
  • Hong Kong's government is set to invoke emergency powers it hasn't used in more than 50 years, as it moves to ban face masks. Here, demonstrators stand in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay to protest the police shooting of a young demonstrator.
    Hong Kong May Ban Face Masks By Invoking Colonial-Era Emergency Powers
    It would be the first time in half a century that a chief executive has used those powers. News reports of the possible action emerged days after police shot a pro-democracy protester in the chest.
  • Blue Marble: The Making Of
    NASA's iconic images of Earth from space date back to the late 1960s--with snapshots taken by Apollo astronauts. The modern "blue marble" images are captured by machines and they're not photos. They're datasets collected by instruments aboard satellites and then translated into imagery on the ground.
  • The grave of Mohamed "Mo" Nabbous is seen in Libya. Mo was killed by a sniper on March 19, 2011 while filming Libya's revolution.
    Paying Respects To A Fallen Journalist In Libya
    Reporting from Libya, NPR's Andy Carvin pays his respects to a friend he knew only through the Internet.
  • Car Bailout Position May Hurt Romney In Michigan
    Symbolically speaking, this month's Michigan's primary may be the most important of the GOP presidential race to date. It's the state where Mitt Romney grew up, and his father was a beloved government and business leader. And now, Romney seems to have a real chance of losing the state to Rick Santorum.
  • A police officer holds an assault weapon turned in during a gun buyback in the Van Nuys area of north Los Angeles on Dec. 26.
    Newtown Prompts Gun Buybacks, But Do They Work?
    Last month's school shootings in Connecticut have prompted communities large and small to hold gun buybacks. On the surface, they seem to have been a success, with record numbers of firearms recovered in some cities. But experts say such programs have limited value in reducing gun violence.
  • The Cathedral of Alcala de Henares is one of many buildings owned by the Catholic Church in Alcala de Henares, Spain. The town, which is outside Madrid, is broke and is pursuing a plan to have the church pay additional taxes.
    Spain's Strapped Towns Look To Churches For Cash
    Alcalá de Henares is re-evaluating the status of hundreds of church holdings that have been exempt from paying property tax for hundreds of years.
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