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The once-hot Silicon Valley startup has seen its stock’s value decline 99% and is struggling to survive. That has put the spotlight on the genetic data it has on 15 million people.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, and defended the Justice Department's investigations into the Jan. 6 insurrection and Hunter Biden.

- Diplomats at the United Nations say they worry that Africa is once again becoming the forgotten continent. NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that conflicts such as that in Burundi are getting minimal attention as the world's powers express growing impatience for becoming embroiled in struggles among African peoples.

Megan Williams of Youth Radio reports that while more and more young people are volunteering and taking part in public service -- many do not see voting as the best way to express their beliefs or influence others. The same kids out on the street making the voices heard, will not necessarily show up in the voting booth.

With the growing acceptance in academia of different kinds of slang as legitimate forms of expression, it should come as no surprise that Amherst College is offering the first university-level course in Spanglish, a combination of Spanish and English. Ilan Stavans, the Amherst professor who's teaching the course, is also preparing a Spanglish dictionary. Pippin Ross reports.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on the variety of opinions being expressed about Disney's impact on ABC's news and entertainment programming. Disney's take-over of Cap Cities/ABC is one of a number of huge media mergers raising concerns about the demise of network independence.

on the transformation of Hezbollah from a politically weak party to a force that far transcends the number of seats in parliament. Each day of fighting has turned the Lebanese to look to Hezbollah as an expression of the national will.

A bomb ripped through an express train carrying at least 1,200 passengers in northeastern India today. Local officials fear that several dozen people may have died in the blast. The BBC's Subhir Baumik has this report.

Two weeks after the deposing of longtime President Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia is undergoing a cultural revival. Music, television and other arts which were tightly controlled under the former regime are enjoying new-found freedom of expression. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade.

Noah talks with Bill Hendricks, a reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, about the latest on the escape of seven Texas prison inmates. Hendricks says the reward for information leading to their capture has been doubled. The seven escaped December 13th.