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The NPR Student Podcast Challenge middle school winners Wesley Helmer, Kit Atteberry, Harrison McDonald and Blake Turley at Williams Middle School in Rockwall, Texas.

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

Austrian nuns await word from the Vatican on whether they can stay in their convent

The three octogenarian nuns broke out of a nursing home to go back to live in their convent, sparking a dispute with their church superior. Both sides have appealed to the Vatican for a resolution.

Lebanese activists gather outside a local bank in support of Abed Soubra, who stormed the branch demanding access to his own accounts, in Beirut on Sept 16. Lebanese police detained Soubra after he entered the bank and, armed with a gun, demanded access to his deposits. It was the third such incident in Lebanon that week alone.

People in Lebanon are robbing banks and staging sit-ins to access their own savings

Lebanon's banks froze accounts three years ago amid an economic collapse. Now, under increasingly desperate circumstances, people are resorting to extreme measures to access their savings accounts.

Lawmakers Approve Funding For Texas Water Plan, Setting Up Statewide Vote

Come November, Texas voters might see some campaigning to amend the constitution. The Senate needs constitutional amendments to create two water fund…

A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

The gunman's AR-15 style rifle lays in a supply closet of Room 111 at Robb Elementary School.

“He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15

In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-style rifle. This drove their decision to wait for a Border Patrol SWAT team to engage him, which took more than an hour.

Julian Assange, shown here Friday in London, is one of four Twitter users and WikiLeaks supporters whose account information the government is seeking.

WikiLeaks Supporters Fight Request For Twitter Data

On Tuesday morning, lawyers for WikiLeaks backers tried to persuade a federal magistrate judge to unseal the government's request for details about four private Twitter accounts. The Justice Department wants more information about some tweets in its probe into the leak of confidential U.S. documents.

Twitter wasn't working for thousands of users on Saturday.

Twitter users report problems accessing the site as Musk sets temporary viewing limits

Many people who tried to access content on the platform were met with error messages. Twitter CEO Elon Musk said "extreme levels of data scraping" were affecting user experience on the site.

Feds Say 'Unbanked' Can Buy Insurance With Prepaid Debit Cards

About a quarter of uninsured people eligible for federal subsidies to help them pay for health coverage don't have bank accounts. A new rule would require insurers to accept payments made many different ways, including by money order and prepaid debit card.

Starting May 11 most people will have to pay for those at-home test kits for COVID-19, as the federal government's declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency officially ends.

COVID test kits, treatments and vaccines won't be free to many consumers much longer

Insurers, employers, taxpayers and other consumers will all be affected as drugmakers move these products to the commercial market in May. How much you'll pay depends on your health insurance.

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