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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Forbes gaming columnist Paul Tassi about Tuesday's release of The Taken King, a new installment of the hugely popular Destiny video game.

A new Netflix series offers a fictionalized account of how smuggler Pablo Escobar built his cocaine empire. The show is compelling and complex — especially for fans of classic crime stories.

Anger erupted in front of the county courthouse in Burns, Ore., Monday as anti-government protesters in town for a rally met a wall of locals sick of outsiders trying to start a movement there.

A former dean at the University of Virginia has won a defamation suit over the discredited story. A Charlottesville jury found Rolling Stone, Wenner Media and the reporter liable in the civil trial.

Early voting is set to account for one-third of the vote this year. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to early voting expert Michael McDonald about what early voting data shows, which states are the most competitive based on early voting data, and if the FBI's revisiting of Hillary Clinton's emails will have a significant impact on the election.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg about the role of Russian propaganda and the flood of "fake news" this election season.

A fraction of people who seek refugee status in the U.S. are approved. Less than one-fourth of 1 percent of refugees on the planet are approved to come here. Leon Rodriguez, former head of Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that vets refugees, says agents already do "extreme vetting."

A spokesman said Tuesday that President Trump does want Medicare to be able to directly negotiate prescription drug prices with drugmakers. Analysts disagree about how much difference that would make.

The White House apparently kept Vice President Mike Pence in the dark regarding the controversy about then-national security adviser Michael Flynn. NPR takes a look at what this says about Pence's standing with President Trump.

Scott Simon talks to Zeynep Tufekci, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about the perils of mass information releases, like the latest Clinton campaign email leak.