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Facebook, Twitter and Google are testifying on Capitol Hill about Russian influence. Sen. Angus King, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Martin about the latest.

NPR'S David Greene talks to Kathryn Garcia, New York City's sanitation commissioner and COVID-19 food czar, about how hungry people can get food, and how trash pick-up is changing during the crisis.

What made us human might have had less to do with men out hunting, and a lot more to do with what was going on at home — with grandmas and babies.

Meet 2020 World Food Prize Laureate: Rattan Lal. His "soil-centric" philosophy is praised as being good for crops — and for mitigating climate change.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: The Street Corner Office, Briefer Briefs and Thou Shall Not Covet The Scuttlebutt.

In his new book Double Cross, Ben MacIntyre recounts the story of the huge deception staged by the Allies before D-Day to hide the invasion target from the Germans. MacIntyre speaks to NPR's Scott Simon about the plan and the eccentric characters who carried it out.

Vultures are generally not admired, but maybe they should be: All over the world, these birds do the hard work of gobbling up dead animals and recycling that flesh into the Earth. And nowadays, nature's prize janitors are seriously down on their luck.

Parasitic tapeworms, the world's largest hornet and a bug with overly aggressive mating habits are all featured in science writer Amy Stewart's book Wicked Bugs, which examines more than 100 of the strangest entomological creatures on the planet.

In 1999, Tom DeBaggio was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. He was 57. Soon after the diagnosis, he began talking with NPR about his illness. He wanted to document his decline, to break through what he called the "shame and silence" of the disease. Now he can't talk, walk or feed himself.

Business leaders worry that tough laws against undocumented workers will discourage legal immigrants from coming to the state to work. Iowa's low jobless rate has left businesses struggling to hire.