Law

Bottles of prescription pills go through an automated packaging machine in a pharmacy plant. The Supreme Court on Tuesday hears a case that considers whether pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicare and Medicaid under the False Claims Act.

Supreme Court looks at whether Medicare and Medicaid were overbilled under fraud law

8:03am April 17, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

Arguments on Tuesday center on a powerful tool for fighting fraud in government contracts and programs. The case examines whether major pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicare and Medicaid.

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A teen's relieved parents finally saw hopeful signs when she got residential treatment. But the family's insurance stopped paying after about two months.

Teen with life-threatening depression finally found hope. Then insurance cut her off

7:53am April 17, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Despite laws that say mental health care should be paid for on a par with other medical care, health insurance stopped covering the care a suicidal teen needed before she was stable.

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National

Morning news brief

7:43am April 17, 2023

Sudan's military and a paramilitary group battled for control of the nation. A mass shooting rocks an Alabama town. The $1.6 billion Dominion v. Fox News trial is now scheduled to start Tuesday.

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'Washington Post': Justice Thomas claimed income from a defunct real estate firm

5:03am April 17, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Washington Post reporter Emma Brown about the paper's reporting that found for years, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claimed income from a defunct real estate firm.

Former Seattle SuperSonics forward Shawn Kemp, center, attends a WNBA basketball game between the Seattle Storm and the Chicago Sky on May 18, 2022, in Seattle. Prosecutors in Washington state charged Kemp on Friday, April 14, 2023, with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting last month over a stolen cell phone.

Sports

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp is charged with 1st-degree assault in a March shooting

1:21am April 17, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Kemp said he was shot at first after he tracked down his stolen cell phone and confronted the person he presumed had it. Kemp was released from jail and not initially charged after the incident.

A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters in New York on April 12.

Politics & Government

The $1.6 billion Dominion v. Fox News trial starts Tuesday. Catch up here

9:03pm April 16, 2023

by Mary Yang

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp. for knowingly airing false claims that its machines rigged the 2020 election against ex-President Donald Trump.

An exam room is seen inside Planned Parenthood Friday, March 10, 2023, in Fairview Heights, Ill.

Out-of-staters are flocking to places where abortions are easier to get

5:41pm April 16, 2023

by Mallika Seshadri

States with strong abortion rights protections are seeing many more abortion seekers, mostly from neighboring states with abortion restrictions.

Supreme Court to hear case on religious accommodations in the workplace

5:38pm April 16, 2023

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Amy Howe, co-founder of SCOTUSBlog, about the Supreme Court case Groff v. DeJoy, to be argued on Tuesday. It involves religious liberty and employment accommodations.

National

The Lullaby Project helps incarcerated mothers connect with their kids through music

5:38pm April 16, 2023

NPR speaks with Claire Bryant, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Music, and "Ashley," a woman who is currently incarcerated and creating lullabies for her children.

Independence Hall in Philadelphia, May 4, 2022. The National Park Service plans to install gas-fired boilers at Independence National Historical Park, despite a 2007 law mandating new and remodeled federal buildings be 100% free of fossil fuels by 2030.

A 15-year-old law would end fossil fuels in federal buildings, but it's on hold

6:44am April 16, 2023

by Jeff Brady

A 2007 law could help the country meet its climate change goals by barring fossil fuels from new and remodeled federal buildings. But the law has been on hold and gas utilities want to repeal it.

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