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Engineers have developed a low-cost material that efficiently sterilizes and desalinates water using only solar energy. The secret to the new technology is likely sitting right on your desk.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Adam Segal, at the Council on Foreign Relations, about Facebook and Twitter shutting down hundreds of fake accounts run by the Chinese government.

Bright says he was removed from his post as a high-ranking federal scientist focused on vaccines because of his reluctance to promote drugs such as hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients.

Top Chinese Communist Party officials are meeting in Beijing to choose their next leadership. What happens at the Party Congress remains shrouded in secrecy.

Lawsuit alleges Walmart and the payments platform Branch Messenger cost delivery drivers millions of dollars in fees, opening deposit accounts without consent and requiring their use to get paid.

The Department of Homeland Security inspector general found 14,000 deficiencies at facilities where migrants in the country illegally are held but issued only two fines.

Ebbers built WorldCom into one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, only to see it all end in bankruptcy and federal fraud charges. He died Sunday at age 78.

The Southern Baptist Convention released the names of accused abusers, but survivors like Hannah-Kate Williams are calling for justice and accountability.

Just ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker and pastor with no election experience.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR's Ann Powers and Marcus Dowling of The Tennessean about how two country songs sit atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the context for this moment.