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Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion. An effective COVID drug will be made available to more pharmacies. Ex-President Trump is held in contempt of court for failing to turn over documents.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Bobby Allyn describes how he landed a scoop and what he learned from years of reporting on the CEO of Tesla, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

The so-called public option may have died when Congress passed its health overhaul law in 2009, but it is alive and healthy in California. There, many counties have government-run health plans that people can buy. Now the debate is over what will happen to these plans when the federal overhaul law kicks in in 2014.

As the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses approaches, an exhibit shows how Luther's treatise against the Catholic Church spread, before the advent of modern communications.

Law enforcement is scrambling to get ahead of the opioid, which is far more chemically potent than heroin. Most illegal fentanyl is made in China. As soon as one version is outlawed, another pops up.

Being the state capital, home to Ohio State University and attractive to younger workers has made Columbus a nearly recession-proof economic hub of Ohio. Can its success be replicated elsewhere?

More than 12 million Americans buy health insurance on their own, and many are getting cancellation notices because their individual coverage does not meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act. This is causing anxiety and anger — especially since most of these people can't get onto the healthcare.gov website to figure out their options for 2014.

A rapidly evolving strain of bird flu has killed a record number of people this year in China. Scientists are concerned about its potential to spur a global pandemic.

The kitchen serves 5,000 iftar meals daily to displaced families living in camps in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon during Ramadan. For many, it offers a sense of community, family and tradition.

NPR's Renee Montagne speaks to Brian Lazarte and James Lee Hernandez, directors of "McMillions," an HBO series about how a McDonald's Monopoly game turned into a major criminal enterprise.