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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that people who use marijuana for medical reasons can be prosecuted by the federal government, even when a state sanctions medicinal use of the drug. Ten states allow people to take marijuana under a doctor's prescription.

Steve Inskeep visits a convention of law-enforcement groups and reports on the growing business of high-tech gadgets.

With songs about Anne Frank's final months at Bergen-Belsen, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea hardly seems like the stuff of high school theater. But with the aid of The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer, students in Lexington, Mass., have turned the seminal indie rock album into a surrealist production.

After visiting Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, two trainees in medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins reflect on disparities in the quality of medical and surgical care provided to refugees.

The bill to keep the government funded until March 23 goes to the Senate, which is expected to change it. Senate leaders say they are closer than ever to reaching a long-term budget deal.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, about the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for a seat in the Supreme Court.

South Carolina and UConn face off later today in the women's NCAA basketball final. The men's contenders will be decided tonight. Plus, the men's World Cup soccer matchups.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Curtis Cain, the 2022 National Superintendent of the Year, about the challenges in the current and incoming school year.

If Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor could have a hand in creating another season of the reality show, he'd ditch the 'Real Housewives' drama and get the cast to talk about COVID vaccines.

Lawyers say an ambiguous statement by Lucio during questioning was wrongly interpreted by prosecutors as a murder confession, during the investigation into her daughter Mariah's 2007 death.