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Hong Kong's new leader, John Lee, rose through the law enforcement ranks to become the territory's No. 2 under outgoing Chief Executive Carrie Lam. He faces governing a divided and mistrustful city.

Google.com, the top Internet search engine, has a new legal battle on its hands -- this one from angry writers. Noah Adams talks with Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin about a lawsuit that claims that Google's effort to make books searchable and findable on the Internet violates copyright law.

Steve Inskeep talks to USA Today's Christine Brennan about the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis and who might make the U.S. Olympic team. Top skater Michelle Kwan could not compete this year, due to an injury.

Just before dawn Thursday morning, the wall around a mountaintop reservoir gave way in southern Missouri. More than a billion gallons of water roared down the mountain, sweeping away the home of the parks superintendent who lived below. Ben Meredith, chief of the Lesterville Fire Department, discusses the causes of the flood and the latest developments.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews TV On The Radio's new album Dear Science. The New York quintet's fourth studio album debuted at number four on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart.

You want to talk GOATS? How about surfer Kelly Slater winning title at Billabong Pipeline Pro, days before his 50th birthday.

There's an unusual bi-partisan effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release information about certain Superfund cleanup sites, pieces of land that have been deemed too toxic for development. The EPA says sharing some information about the sites could discourage companies from cleaning up their environmental messes.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with National Education Association President Becky Pringle about school staffing issues, and the burnout that has more teachers thinking about leaving their jobs.

The Biden administration responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the president announces his historic pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

Shamir's new album, 'Heterosexuality,' confronts how the public viewed him back in 2014, when his debut single nearly made him a pop star at the age of 19.