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Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that bars professional teams there from treating their cheerleaders as independent contractors. The bill came after lawsuits alleged the cheerleaders were underpaid.

Live conversations on Clubhouse and Twitter took off during the pandemic, connecting people online when they couldn't in real life. Now social media companies are scrambling to launch audio features.

When dictionaries add trendy words like "twerk," they're prioritizing the fleeting language habits of the young, says Geoff Nunberg. And our fascination with novel words tends to eclipse subtle changes in the meanings of old ones — "which are often more consequential," he says.

Born in a moment of despair, as its creator was staring down hearing loss, Beethoven's Third Symphony is as odd as it is transcendent.

The debate: Why have male CEOs, who promised the moon and failed, not been prosecuted? Holmes faces possible prison time over fraud charges tied to her former blood-testing company Theranos.

David Greene talks to Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer, who describes how online alt-tech sites like Gab help push conspiracy theories and alt-right ideologies from the fringes into the mainstream.

A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they've suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysfunction.

In this episode of 'Exposition', we feature an in-studio interview during 'Jazz à la Carte' and 'Afternoon Classics' with Dr. Deborah Caldwell, the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Southeast Missouri State University. She previews the upcoming 'Brass in Bedell' show on Nov. 6th at 7:30 pm in Bedell Performance Hall at the River Campus.

Saudi Arabia's terrorism court says Loujain al-Hathloul, who's been in prison since 2018, incited changes to the kingdom's laws and used the Internet to push a foreign agenda.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., about leading an impeachment effort against President Trump. Raskin was inside the Capitol building on Jan. 6.