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The average cost of a new car is also at the highest on record, topping $47,000 a pop. At this rate, an essential household purchase is starting to feel like a luxury in America.

Don't get swindled while buying those last-minute gifts. Amy Nofziger, a fraud specialist with AARP, shares top schemes she's been seeing this season — and tips on how to protect yourself.

Can the Iowa sensation finally win a ring? Will UConn repeat? Who could be this year's Cinderella? With March Madness around the corner, here's a preview of what to watch for on Selection Sunday.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer about what Iran will get in return for the release of four Americans from the notorious Evin prison.

Medical Roundtable; 'The Plant Hunter'

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with John Paul Brammer about his new memoir, Hola Papi.

On tonight’s program: A bill that would ban people from using force to resist unlawful arrest or detainment sparked tempers on the Senate floor today; Now that the Florida House has okayed 18-year-olds buying long guns, the matter is in the hands of the state Senate; A plan to cut Florida’s state sales tax rate from 6 to 5.25% has cleared the House and has now landed in the Senate; And worries abound on how Florida will handle the wholesale loss of federal food subsidies for programs that fight food insecurity.

Infowars is on the auction block, and would-be-buyers have opposite agendas.

In 2019, more than 130 million metric tons of single-use plastics were thrown away, with most of that waste burned, buried in a landfill or dumped…

President Bush says reforming social security will be a top priority during his second term. He wants workers to be able to divert some of their payroll taxes into private accounts. They could invest that money in stocks and bonds to save for their own retirement. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on what privatization could mean, and how it might be done.