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President Obama delivers his first State of the Union speech Wednesday in the face of some serious challenges: Unemployment is at 10 percent, the White House is on the defensive and Democrats are angrily griping at one another. But the speech is a chance for Obama to speak directly to the American people.

Given the contrasts in personality and policy — and how much energy President Trump has spent on dismantling what Kerry worked for — one can't help but want to hear more from the former senator.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Atlantic Council researcher Alia Brahimi how corruption in Libya contributed to the devastation wrought by recent flooding there.

NPR's David Greene talks to Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post about a data hack on Capital One Bank which has affected more than 100 million people in the U.S. and Canada.

Writer Eileen Pollack studied physics at Yale in the 1970s, but ended up pursuing another career. Her personal account provides something statistics and studies often leave out, says Tania Lombrozo.

Last month, the two main parties in Pakistan's new coalition government agreed to introduce a parliamentary resolution reinstating the senior judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf within 30 days of forming a government. Musharraf's enemies say once the judges are back, they'll declare his recent re-election as president as illegal. Wednesday is the deadline to reinstate the judges.

Recent hoaxes raise concerns that swatting is becoming a growing trend in political violence in the U.S. There are still many questions about who and what motivations lie behind these calls.

Columbia University officials answered lawmaker questions about antisemitism on campus. But Wednesday's hearing played out very differently from the 2023 hearing that grabbed so many headlines.

On Tuesday House impeachment managers delivered the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate.

The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and several ongoing lawsuits.