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Pokemon Go has become a smartphone gaming sensation, generating $1.6 million in daily revenue by one estimate and boosting the market value of Nintendo. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to writer Glen Weldon about the hit game and the playing experience.

We look back at the deaths of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

Most employees at large companies should expect a 5 percent increase in their health insurance premiums in 2017 and few changes to the coverage and features.

Puerto Rico has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1948, a stretch in which it amassed eight Olympic medals, none of them gold. Tennis star Monica Puig changed that on Saturday.

Astronomers have known about the powerful pulses but had never been able to catch one in the act to help figure out what's producing them. Last year, they got one.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gabriel Zucman, author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations, about the leaked Panama papers and what they say about the practice of hiding money offshore worldwide. He's estimated that up to 8 percent of the world's financial wealth is hidden away.

Airlines are expecting record numbers of spring break travelers. Both the industry and TSA are expecting airport screening checkpoints to have long lines. They urge travelers to arrive early.

A new study on Inuit in Greenland suggests that Arctic peoples evolved genetic adaptations that allow them to get by mostly on seal blubber and meat without developing health problems.

After 2016, nothing will make Democrats feel secure in the final weeks of a presidential election. For Joe Biden's campaign, which doesn't want voters to be complacent, the anxiety is OK.

The vehicles are comparatively affordable at $35,000. Tesla says it can't build them fast enough to meet the demand.