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Igor Vorotinov had been living in Moldova after allegedly faking his death there in 2011. He was brought back to Minnesota on Saturday by U.S. law enforcement.

Iranians contacted by NPR are losing income and looking for who's at fault as U.S. sanctions start to bite.

Former restaurant manager Bobby Paul Edwards admits that he used threats and physical violence and threats to force the man to work more than 100 hours a week without pay for years.

Years after an investigation in Boston highlighted the dimensions of the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic priesthood, the financial and reputational cost to the Catholic church continues to grow.

President Trump is expected to declare a national emergency to get additional border security funding. There are a few different areas where that money might come from.

Despite their current opposition, the individual mandate originated with Republicans. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks to former Sen. Bob Bennett about the Republicans' support of the idea. During his 18 years in the Senate, Bennett, a Republican, co-sponsored health care reform bills containing the individual mandate.

Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease can drain families' bank accounts. But there is also a high emotional price to be paid. The administration's federal budget would fund more support for family caregivers.

There may not be a government shutdown later this week after all — at least that's what a deal agreed on Monday night by the Senate aims to prevent. Lawmakers had been tied up in partisan knots for days over a temporary spending measure keeping the government open once the new fiscal year begins this weekend. Most of the trouble was over House Republicans' insistence that disaster relief funding in that measure be offset by cuts in other government programs. It's now up to the House to seal that Senate deal.

Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve, a dramatic account of the Renaissance-era rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius, won for nonfiction. Salvage the Bones, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, by Jesmyn Ward, won for fiction.

The days of keeping large files on your home or office computer are waning. Instead, documents and files are accessible from nearly any device, anytime from anywhere. But what exactly is this place called the cloud?