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NPR investigates allegations that former Los Angeles mayor and current U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti lied under oath to protect a friend and adviser from harassment claims.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his U.K. counterpart are in Kyiv after Russia received shipments of close-range ballistic missile systems from Iran.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, three Americans are among dozens of people on trial for a failed coup attempt. NPR's Lauren Frayer talks to independent journalist Emmet Livingstone.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Guardian reporter Jamiles Lartey about the shutdown's disproportionate effect on African-Americans, who make up more of the federal workforce than the workforce at large.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, about plans to make coronavirus vaccines free to Medicare and Medicaid recipients.

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

For some American Muslims, Christmas is a day to read the Quran's passages about the birth of Jesus — he's a prophet in Islam, too. For others, it's a day to trim the tree, or just relax.

From member station KPBS, Scott Horsley reports on the latest fast food craze in California. Jollibee is a Filipino chain that serves up classic American food with a taste of the islands: hamburgers are topped with pineapple, and dessert pies are filled with mango.

Essayist Julie Hauserman has seen the light: it's blue and it's spinning on top of a pole at Kmart. She says it's time for Americans to heed the call of our national religion: shopping.

Mars and Martians. They go together in the public's mind. The Earthling fascination with "alien invaders" goes back a long time. But why? And what does it say about all of us here on Earth? Dean explores this cultural phenomenon with David Baron, author of "The Martians."