President Joe Biden has unveiled a strategy to combat a spike in violent crime. The strategy includes using coronavirus relief funding to hire more police officers.

And a report commissioned by the Michigan GOP on the results of the 2020 election found no evidence of fraud.

The Biden administration has indicated that the nation will miss its July 4 partial vaccination goal.

Meanwhile, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, are visiting the White House Friday to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.

Computer virus software company founder John McAffee was found dead in a Spanish prison as his extradition to the U.S. for tax evasion was approved.

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The popularity of home security surveillance systems like Amazon's Ring and Google Nest is rising. The devices are easy to use and they save footage from users' homes to the cloud.

But is that all they're capturing?

Some are also recording passersby, and can sometimes even reach across the street into neighbors' homes.

Why are doorbell cameras so popular and how do we balance the concerns of privacy versus security?

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While the pandemic meant a major touring hiatus for a lot of musical artists, writer, rapper, and singer Dessa kept creating content.

She hosts a new BBC podcast called Deeply Human and has a radio drama in the works.

In January, she announced a single series called "Ides," where she releases a new song on the 15th of every month. There's even one called "Terry Gross."

We talk with Dessa about keeping busy during the last year.

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Medical debt soared during the pandemic as people lost jobs, lost health insurance, and spent weeks in hospitals recovering from COVID-19.

ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen spent years investigating high healthcare costs. Now he wants to convince everyone they do have the power to fight the system. We ask him how.

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For this installment of our Local Spotlight series, we talk to two reporters who investigated the Hawaiian homesteading program that aimed to return Native Hawaiians to their homeland.

The program was established in 1921 when Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole successfully lobbied for the passage of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. The program was implemented in order to help the population of Native Hawaiians grow.

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Democrats look to pass the Biden administration's American Jobs and Family Plan through the Senate via a simple majority vote in July.

Nine years from the passage of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (or DACA), the Biden administration's will push for bipartisan immigration reform.

Meanwhile abroad, President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for a summit in Geneva to discuss a variety of issues including election interference, Ukraine, and Russian opposition leaders.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that he'll "be back" after being voted out of office on Sunday, after 12 uninterrupted years in power. His government was replaced by a shaky governing coalition of opposition parties.

And North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un informed officials in his ruling Workers' Party that the country is growing ever closer to experiencing famine. Un reportedly said, "the people's food situation is now getting tense."

We cover all these headlines and more.

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The NPR podcast "Throughline" looks at the history behind headlines.

In their upcoming series, hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei look at capitalism.

According to a 2019 Gallup poll, Millenials and Gen Z are evenly split when it comes to opinions on capitalism and socialism. But those views aren't without their nuance.

We discuss the newest series and our relationship with the free market.

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A recent Gallup poll found that a growing number of adults identify as LGBT. One in six Gen Z adults identified as LGBT compared to the around one in 10 millennials. The survey also found that more than half of LGBT adults identify as bisexual.

But, despite their numbers, bisexuals are often overlooked and are still stigmatized by many inside and out of the LGBT community. They are far less likely than gays and lesbians to be out to the people in their lives.

We talk about the issues and unique struggles of those who identify as bi, and why visibility is such an issue.

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West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced he'd vote against the For The People Act, dealing a blow to Democrats in the fight over voting rights.

The bill promised to expand voting rights and combat the onslaught of restrictive voting laws being passed on the state level.

What does the failure to pass this legislation mean for voting rights?

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When the novel The Underground Railroad was published in 2016, it caught the world's attention for its stark portrayal of slavery in America.

The story reimagines the metaphorical underground railroad as an actual underground railroad, with train tracks and stations. Readers follow the journey of Cora, a young woman escaping slavery in Georgia.

Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been adapted into a limited TV series of the same name, available to stream on Amazon Prime.

We speak with Barry Jenkins, the director of the show, and Colson Whitehead, the book's author.

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