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Michael Schumacher, pictured at a press conference in Brazil in 2006, hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013.

A magazine touted Michael Schumacher's first interview in years. It was actually AI

F1 champion Michael Schumacher hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013. Die Aktuelle fired its editor over the AI-generated piece, and Schumacher's family plans to sue.

Phoebe Plummer, pictured at a demonstration in London's Piccadilly Circus in early October, spoke to Morning Edition about the tactics Just Stop Oil is using to draw attention to the urgency of climate change.

The activist who threw soup on a van Gogh says it's the planet that's being destroyed

Phoebe Plummer, a climate activist with Just Stop Oil, speaks with NPR's Morning Edition about what the group wants, and why they're turning to controversial tactics to get it.

A Nissan electric vehicle recharges at a Power Up fast charger station on April 14, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. California has more chargers than any other state in the U.S., but the federal government is trying to expand charger access across the country.

Federal money is now headed to states for building up fast EV chargers on highways

All 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico have received the go-ahead to start spending federal dollars on new chargers. The long-term plan is to spend $5 billion improving charging infrastructure.

Appeals court vacates cleanup order in Gelman dioxane case

The ruling means Gelman Sciences is no longer bound by a consent judgment to accelerate treatment of contaminated groundwater and soil.

Restaurant food and packaged foods are often high in salt to make them more palatable. The FDA wants to see the food industry gradually reduce sodium levels in these foods.

Eating too much salt is making Americans sick. Even a 12% reduction can save lives

The FDA has issued new targets to reduce the amount of salt that manufacturers put in their foods. It could prevent thousands of cases of cardiovascular disease.

The tension between private thoughts and public personae, in a culture that forces consent to being constantly watched, feels like the guiding narrative of Yves Tumor's sonic and visual world.

Yves Tumor's disruptive pop-cultural synthesis

Rather than proclaiming the present sick on their fifth record, the sensitive Tennessean glam-punk wraps themselves up in its language — pop music.

Puppies play in a cage at a pet store in Columbia, Md., in 2019. New York has become the latest state to ban the sale of cats, dogs, and rabbits in pet stores in an attempt to target commercial breeding operations. Maryland banned such sales in 2020.

New York bans pet stores from selling cats, dogs and rabbits

The new law, designed to target commercial breeding operations decried by critics as "puppy mills," lets pet shops work instead with shelters to offer rescued or abandoned animals up for adoption.

Maksim Manakhov, 23, and Lilya Lohyna, 22, fell in love after Russian forces encircled their home of Kharkiv and it became the site of near constant shelling for months.

These Ukrainians have managed to find and hold onto love in a time of war

Amid Russia's ongoing invasion of their country, these Ukrainians share remarkable stories of love and resilience in the face of war.

A pill press machine seized by authorities is displayed during a news conference outside the Roybal Federal Building in February 2021 in Los Angeles.

Fentanyl's lethal toll continues. Nearly 10 million pills were seized last year

A study by the National Institutes of Health said pills are the most common form of the drug with a nearly 50-fold increase in law enforcement seizures.

How should we think about Michael Jackson's music? A new podcast explores his legacy

Journalist Leon Neyfakh and hip-hop commentator Jay Smooth explore Jackson's staying power despite allegations of child sexual abuse. They call the series a "social history" rather than a biography.

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