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Political scientist Robert Pape has found that unlike other extremists he's studied, most of the Jan. 6 rioters were older, employed, and few are members of hate groups.

Eight out of 10 Americans believe the U.S. faces a threat to democracy but disagree on what is causing it. The final NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll of 2022 reveals insights into public opinion.

As the U.S. and western allies weigh restrictions on energy purchases from Russia, the U.S. is dealing with a record high price for a gallon of gas. That's due to an increase in crude oil costs.

The Fed has been buying up bonds by the trillions since the financial crisis started in 2008. Today, it affirmed that it was going ahead with plans to end its third round of stimulus.

The government of Canada has introduced legislation to allow adults to possess, share and purchase marijuana, while also strengthening penalties for those who give or sell the products to youth.

The Baltimore Sun was bought last month by David D. Smith, a media executive known for his conservative political advocacy. He's already changing the nearly 200-year-old newspaper.

Actor Richard Bauer reads excerpts from John Hersey's "Hiroshima," an account of six survivors of the atomic bombing of that city. "Hiroshima" was originally an entire issue of THE NEW YORKER magazine (August 1, 1946) and was later published in book form.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London on an angry public debate over whether pedophiles should be publicly identified. Street mobs have forced wrongly accused men into hiding. Police blame lurid accounts of pedophile crimes in the tabloid press.

A new report by the General Accounting Office says that there could be as many as a quarter of a million attempts by computer hackers to access the Defense Department's computer system every year, and more than half of them are successful. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.