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Spending on the Kentucky Senate race might reach $100 million. So what else could that get you in the Bluegrass State? NPR's Tamara Keith finds out when she calls up some local business owners.

Researchers ranked countries in terms of how easy it is to get a balanced, nutritious diet. The U.S. didn't even make the top 20, even though it has the greatest abundance of cheap food in the world. Western Europe nearly swept the top 10. Guess which country was No. 1?

Congress set aside $350 million to help colleges with "significant unmet needs" related to the pandemic. Most of that money has gone to small schools that serve just a fraction of U.S. students.

"That's like setting three small cars on top of the jaws of a T. rex — that's basically what was pushing down," a researcher says. Humans bite with a measly 200 pounds of force.

NPR's Noel King talks to USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan about tennis star Naomi Osaka walking away from the French Open after a standoff with top officials over her media appearances.

Congress is ramping up its probe into hundreds of reports of migrant child labor in the U.S. A House panel grilled a top official of a program responsible for placing these children in safe homes.

Merriam-Webster issues its top-10 words every year. What are this year's words, and what do they say about society? NPR's Rachel Martin sits down with Editor-at-Large Peter Sokolowski to find out.

Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday. A number of films are up for top awards.

It isn't just privacy that is at risk in this new era of Big Data collection. Secrecy is a casualty too. It used to be classified documents were kept in a safe and seen by a select view. Now a top secret document can be accessed by hundreds, if not thousands, all with the click of a mouse. Because of that the modalities of spying have changed. Now analysts can take an infinite number of secrets with them by just putting them on a thumb drive, but it's a counter-intelligence nightmare.

G7 leaders are meeting in Puglia, Italy, this week. At the top of their agenda: the tricky details of how to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.