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A new movement has emerged in recent years: de-influencing. What started as a backlash to advertising could now have a surprising and real-world impact on the environment.

A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."

President Trump is accelerating the attacks on diversity-in-business programs. But DEI experts say this may be the wakeup call big companies need.

The Trump campaign is set to run about $11 million in ads in the two Midwestern states he won in 2016. But six states continue to dominate the airwaves, with Florida and Pennsylvania topping the list.

Israelis surged into the streets Sunday night to demand a cease-fire with Hamas after six hostages were found dead in Gaza. Israel's largest trade union also called a general strike for Monday.

The new health law will compel insurers to pay for all sorts of preventive and screening services that are supported by strong evidence.

The No Child Left Behind Act requires low-income schools that haven't met performance targets for three years in a row to provide tutoring services to their students. The tutoring industry is benefiting from the influx of federal money, but critics worry about the quality of the services. In our second and final story on the rise of tutoring, Elaine Korry reports.

Guest host Sheilah Kast speaks with Jonnie Robinson, curator of the British Library's Collection of Accents and Dialects. The library recently released over 55 hours of audio on their Web site that document the evolution of British English over the past 50 years.

A video posted on a militant Islamic Web site shows the beheading of a man identified as civilian contractor Eugene Armstrong. Armstrong was kidnapped along with one British and one American colleague from their house in Baghdad Thursday. Hear NPR's Peter Kenyon and NPR's Robert Siegel.

In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms.