Journalists with sticky fingers: NPR's Scott Simon talks about items missing from Air Force One, prompting the White House Correspondents Association to remind reporters to leave these things be.

Russia's ban on Jehovah's Witnesses has led to raids, arrests and imprisonment. NPR's Scott Simon says that the religion the Russian government calls "extreme" would be better described as "devout."

NPR's Scott Simon muses on his family's life with animals — a dog, a foster cat, a hamster in a hamster ball — and all that entails.

NPR's Scott Simon recounts the heroic actions of a Chicago bus driver and his passengers, who saw buildings on fire at 2 a.m. and raced to warn residents.

Illinois has a chance to enshrine its long history of corruption.

Tucker Carlson did not ask Putin about how so many of his opponents wind up imprisoned and murdered, or the warrant the International Criminal Court has out for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Alexei Navalny. The Russian opposition leader died Friday in a penal colony.

For people with damaged or diminished hearing, hearing aids are helpful devices that shouldn't carry stigma.

A string of shooting deaths of Chicago high-schoolers shocks and saddens, despite a decrease in the city's homicide rate.

Charles Osgood, who died this week at age 91, was too modest to call himself a poet.

Comedian George Carlin has been dead more than 15 years, but AI George Carlin is out with "new" material.

Thefts of French bulldogs are up nationwide, possibly because they're like jewelry: small, cute and expensive.

NPR's Scott Simon recounts a recent encounter with a certain robust, white-bearded fellow in a red suit.

NPR's Scott Simon talks about Malört, a subjectively foul-tasting spirit beloved by Chicagoans who like to prove how impervious they are to good taste.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers television producer Norman Lear, who died this week at age 101.