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NPR's Juana Summers talks with New York Times business reporter Peter Eavis about the end of the de minimis exemption for international shipments, and what it means for consumers.

Under current laws, if a background check shows your name is on the national terror watch list, you can still purchase a gun. Government data show that people on terrorism watch lists were able to buy guns or explosives after a background check more than 1,300 times between 2004 and 2010.

Also: Tracing the contradictory timeline of ex-White House staffer Rob Porter; South African President Jacob Zuma faces a no-confidence vote by parliament; and a Mt. Hood climber is killed in a fall.

The United Nations says 22 children were killed in an airstrike and puts the blame on the Saudi-led forces intervening in the civil war.

Misleading and false information is muddying efforts to uncover who is responsible for the deadly blast that killed hundreds of people.

Set to open within a few weeks, the room will not be a place to inject drugs or get high, say health providers. Instead, a nurse will monitor heroin users as they come down from the drug's effects.

Two updates announced Tuesday, early toe-dips that Facebook promises are only the beginning, give members of its gargantuan user base ways of sharing the music they like. But is any of this ... fun?

Pacific Northwest tribes are pressuring President Biden to make good on his pledge to uphold treaties in Indian Country and remove four large dams on the Snake River.

The tech company spent $200,000 to oppose the measure, but reversed course on Wednesday following CEO Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony on the Cambridge Analytica data breach.

When news of Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr first hit, Tumblr users took their reactions online. The posts were quirky and sharp with plenty of worry about the future.