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Environmental advocacy groups were called in to help structure the deal for TXU Corp., the Texas electrical utility. Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, describes the process of winning environmental commitments from TXU's suitors.

NPR's A Martinez talks with Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan about new guidelines for agencies that review mergers and acquisitions for compliance with federal antitrust laws.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield about Russia backing out of the Black Sea Grain Deal with Ukraine.

The Obama administration has unveiled its plan for overhauling the financial regulatory system. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told lawmakers the administration wants to bring some of the market's most complicated products under federal oversight.

In 1980s Arkansas, everyone was abuzz with Satan-paranoia. In the middle of the chaos, a teenage Scott Hutchins came across Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. What he found wasn't demonic at all — instead, it was an eye-opening, complex narrative about sad failures, washed-up movie stars and wrecked marriages.

Protests started over the weekend in St. Louis after the acquittal of a white police officer who shot and killed a black man in 2011. Some demonstrators say they'll keep protesting for weeks.

Several organizations in Indiana launched a vending machine that provides free emergency contraception in response to growing concerns about access to reproductive care. The organizations plan to expand the project throughout the state.

Supporters of an interest-rate cap say the current system can result in what are effectively triple-digit annual interest rates on payday loans.

Ulbricht operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road when law enforcement arrested him. The pardon fulfills a campaign pledge Trump made to Ulbricht's Libertarian supporters.

Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of some of the country's biggest banks this week, on everything from cryptocurrencies to overdraft fees to their business relationships with China.