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NPR's Scott Simon talks about a cricket-match scam in an Indian village. Russian gamblers were duped. The scam is now under investigation.

The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack begin hearings in prime time this week; negotiations over gun legislation continue; PA's Democratic senate candidate has medical news.

Michael Stipe and Mike Mills share some of the stories behind the band's landmark album and how it became an unlikely hit.

The former president's campaign to get his vice president to overturn the election "was not just wrong," said Vice Chair Liz Cheney, a Republican, "it was illegal and unconstitutional."

An attacker with a large kitchen knife killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip before being arrested Thursday, police said.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Farahnaz Ispahani, who served in Pakistan's Parliament, about Prime Minister Imran Khan's upcoming White House visit.

The Bob's Burgers Movie, Jordan Peele's Nope, and Fire Island with Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster are all on our critics' lists.

Some 25,000 National Guard members are in the city where insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol just two weeks ago.

An air ambulance with six people aboard crashed and then exploded on Friday evening in Philadelphia. The medical transport plane was returning a patient and her mother to Mexico. Several houses caught on fire close to the crash site. Six people on the ground were taken to the hospital with injuries.

The Latin Grammy nominated song "Despacito" is a smash hit on YouTube. But if you ask Google's personal assistant to play "Despacito" it can't understand the command. Even though YouTube is part of Google. It's a learning moment about artificial intelligence, how natural language processing works and why machines still struggle with translation and foreign accents.