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The Supreme Court overturns the conviction of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen. The company had been convicted of instructing employees to shred documents, hindering an investigation of Andersen's role at Enron Corporation. Andersen said its officials had been reminding employees of the firm's policy of disposing of documents that are no longer needed.

Peter Kornbluh, editor of The Pinochet File, talks to Steve Inskeep about the history of charges against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet died Sunday at the age of 91.

The $1 billion lawsuit the Justice Department filed against Bank of America over mortgage fraud allegations may be the most accountability taxpayers ever see from the 2008 crisis. The statute of limitations is expiring, and no major Wall Street bank or banker has been charged with a crime.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with University of Chicago constitutional law professor Aziz Huq about what happens now that the House Jan. 6th Committee has subpoenaed former President Donald Trump.

U.S. Justice Department and Seattle officials seek an end to most federal oversight of the city's police department, saying its sustained reform efforts are a model for other cities.

Lawmakers on the House oversight panel are turning their attention to crime and police reform in D.C.

Because of an increase in federal funding, Oklahoma’s Medicaid agency is sitting on more than half a billion dollars in extra money. Lawmakers want to spend that on normal Medicaid operations, and it’s looking like they’re going to get their way.

The president's move to spare the former White House aide from 2 ½ years in prison for lying and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case has brought harsh criticism from Democrats who say the decision shows the administration's lack of accountability.

Hidden for decades, the diary of a 14-year-old Polish Jewish girl who was killed at Auschwitz was recently published in English and Hebrew. Her writings offer a personal account of life in Poland during the Holocaust.

When the House Foreign Relations Committee approved a measure that would officially declare the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in the early 19th century genocide, it revived a political debate.

The United Nations has approved the deployment of a Kenyan led security mission to Haiti — sparking human rights concerns about deploying a force that has a long record of abuses.

A year out from the 2024 election, Democrats are considering TikTok as a strategy to reach younger Americans.