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"Ike" Kaveladze, a businessman based in California, was born in the former Soviet Union. He figures prominently in a New York Times article dating from 2000 about money laundering.

Pinkies up, Janeites! We mark the bicentennial of Austen's death with a look at her relationship with a beloved cuppa.

Ty Cobb, the Washington lawyer not the baseball legend, is joining an ever growing roster of lawyers at the White House. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, about the role Cobb will play and the significance of his hiring.

Despite President Trump's pledge to build a massive wall and his attacks against illegal immigration, some things at the U.S.-Mexico border haven't changed. A group called Border Angels looks after the safety of migrants crossing into the U.S.

Millions of people in Yemen and sub-Saharan Africa are facing food shortages and severe malnutrition. Host Audie Cornish talks with Justin Forsyth of UNICEF about the crisis.

The Snapchat video went viral over the weekend. The woman's outfit would be unremarkable in the U.S., but Saudi Arabia has a conservative dress code for women. The woman has since been released.

Legislatures and city halls are battling over who gets to set the minimum wage, and increasingly, the states are winning. Business groups argue that complying with disparate city laws is too complex.

In One Hot Summer, historian Rosemary Ashton follows Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli through an unpleasant couple of months — as the River Thames flowed with hot, smelly sewage.

A White House official says that although the talk at the summit in Germany was not previously disclosed, the administration wasn't trying to hide it.

Market analysts see parallels with Tesla and Amazon as the company spends big to grow its business ahead of immediate profits.