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Singer-songwriter Sam Beam -- who's better known by his musical persona Iron & Wine -- performed at the Boston Public Library as part of a new music series at WBUR called "Off the Record."

Using strong words, Gen. Keith Alexander told the Black Hat convention that stories about leaked documents focus on potential abuse of surveillance data, but he argued reports show analysts rarely stray and if they do, they would be caught by their auditing tools.

NPR correspondent and former All Things Considered co-host Noah Adams recalls a day he spent with the famed crime writer in Detroit.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the ban on big, sugary drinks was unconstitutional. The decision is a blow for the city's Board of Health, which has argued that regulation is an effective means of changing unhealthful behaviors. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his legal team say they will appeal.

Two New York pols felled by sex scandals, Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, are back. And no one is more excited than the city's scrappy, pun-loving tabloids, which are pummeling them nearly every day.

From Texas Standard: It's been 45 years since astronaut Harrison Schmitt set foot on the moon as part of the Apollo 17 mission – and no one's done it...

The Spanish government says the Oct. 1 vote on Catalan independence is illegal. Tens of thousands of people marched in Barcelona to support the scheduled vote, clashing with police overnight.

Wray, who was confirmed by the Senate in August, was officially sworn in on Thursday. Wray was picked to head the FBI after President Trump fired James Comey in May.

The Winter Games' opening ceremony took place Friday, with 20,000 fireworks, the parade of athletes — and an impromptu handshake between South Korea's president and Kim Jong Un's sister.

Nadezhda Sergeeva, a bobsled athlete, failed a drug test for a banned heart drug, the Russian Bobsled Federation announced on Friday.