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Karen Williams (left) holds hands with her daughter, Lena Powell, while walking through St. Michael's Lutheran Churchyard in Philadelphia. Williams, who is disabled, bought a life insurance policy to pay for her funeral, but it caused her to lose access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit checks that she relies on to pay bills.

These disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits

A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

What drove last year's surge in Chinese migrants at the southern border?

Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, claim without evidence that Chinese migrants are spies or drug smugglers. Migrants' accounts tell a different story.

Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

The Twitter CEO's selective release of internal communications largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.

Caroline Ellison leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York City after testifying during the trial of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, on Oct. 10, 2023. Ellison said Bankman-Fried was the main decision maker and steered her to transfer funds from FTX to Alameda Research, a financial firm she headed.

She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her testimony was explosive

Caroline Ellison accused Bankman-Fried of being the mastermind behind illegal activity at FTX. Her words carry weight: She worked with him and also once dated him.

That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake

Stanford researchers uncovered more than 1,000 of these LinkedIn profiles. A technology that has been used to promote misinformation online has now entered the corporate world.

A police officer stands at the entrance of the office building where Indian tax authorities raided BBC's office in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Indian tax agents raid BBC for 2nd day, after it aired documentary critical of Modi

A two-part BBC documentary examined Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in anti-Muslim raids that killed hundreds in his home state of Gujarat in 2002.

The Justice Department has charged a U.S. Army Reserves major in an alleged years-long fraud scheme targeting Gold Star families.

Gold Star families allegedly defrauded of death benefits by adviser

A major in the Army Reserves and financial counselor with the Army allegedly used his access to beneficiaries of deceased servicemembers to defraud them and enrich himself, prosecutors allege.

A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen, May 4, 2021, in Washington. The amount of tax money owed but not paid to the IRS is set to keep growing, according to projections published by the federal tax collection agency.

Gap between U.S. income taxes owed and paid is set to keep growing, the IRS says

For tax years 2021 and 2020, the latest to receive such IRS estimates, the projected gross "tax gap" soared to $688 billion and $601 billion, respectively. That is a significant jump from the past.

Join The Morning Edition Book Club: We're Reading 'Deep Down Dark'

Welcome to the first meeting of NPR's new book club! We're reading Hector Tobar's account of 33 men who were trapped for 69 days in a Chilean mine. Send us your questions; we may read them on-air.

Coronavirus Whistleblower Dies From The Disease In China

Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist based in Wuhan, was reprimanded in early January by local authorities for "publishing falsehoods" after he mentioned cases of the virus in a WeChat group.

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