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Jill Schlesinger said most powerful protection against most financial fraud isn't a sophisticated security system or expensive monitoring service. It's conversation among family members.

China's state-run media warns of trade retaliation against Japan, following a weekend of anti-Japanese protests across China over Japan's purchase of disputed islands in the East China Sea. As the economic cost of these protests begins to escalate, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim tries to find out exactly who's behind them.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about Wednesday's mass shooting at a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis.

Both firms say customers will have to be 21 to buy a gun. Both are also putting new curbs on ammunition purchases in response to the Parkland, Fla., high school shootings.

The HHS Secretary nominee has said he'd like to end subsidies for junk food and sugary drinks via federal programs such as SNAP, which, at $100 billion a year, is the U.S.'s top anti-hunger program.

President Trump's tariffs are almost "tailor-made" to hit the goods that lower income households prefer to purchase, says economist Ernie Tedeschi of Yale's nonpartisan Budget Lab.

During the opening day of the Enron fraud and conspiracy trial, federal prosecutors present their case against former executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Defense lawyers also give their opening statements. The energy giant collapsed in 2001 -- the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at the time.

The IRS has delivered more than $207 billion in coronavirus relief payments to individual taxpayers, but some of the recipients of the relief checks are the bank accounts of people who have died.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with researcher Samuel Woolley of the Institute for the Future, and co-author of a new report that says almost 30 percent of accounts tweeting against Jews appear to be bots.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the background check on former White House staff secretary Rob Porter was complete months before Porter was forced to resign over allegations of domestic violence.

Wells Fargo's John Stumpf was pilloried again Thursday in an appearance before the House Financial Services Committee. Stumpf reiterated his apology for the fake accounts scandal and promised the bank would do better, but it did little good. Many lawmakers wanted to know why it took the bank so long to put an end to the fraudulent practices.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says his home email and phone accounts have been hacked. CIA Director John Brennan's private accounts were targeted in October. What lessons can be learned?