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U.S. employers added 467,000 jobs last month despite a surge of coronavirus infections. The unemployment rose to 4% from 3.9% in December.

A simple word game has taken the internet by storm. But now that the New York Times owns the game, can the wonder of Wordle last?

Phyllis Fischer, a 40-year-old wife and mother, is drawn into a liberating relationship with a much younger man. She soon realizes that perhaps she wasn't so content as she thought.

A group calling itself Krause House DAO, named after the late Chicago Bulls general manager, Jerry Krause, has raised $4 million with the long-shot goal of trying to buy an NBA sports franchise.

Despite the poor sound quality, Tristano's newly unearthed Personal Recordings from 1946-1970 are fascinating. Free jazz can be rambunctious, but these musicians step and listen carefully.

Maggie Smith's dowager countess acquires a villa in the South of France, so the Downton household goes on a field trip in Downton Abbey: A New Era.

"It'd be great if you had some help — but I can assure you those kids need help more than you need help," says Steve Ijames, who trains police agencies on active-shooter situations.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is trying to put an end to kite tubing, a sport in which a person soars aloft while tethered to a boat. The agency has issued a recall of kite tubes, saying too many people have been hurt or killed in falls.

House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise Thursday to extend provisions of the USA Patriot Act. But Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a sponsor of the 2001 act, tells Steve Inskeep that he doesn't approve of the deal that was struck.

Melissa Block talks with Karl Vick of The Washington Post in Tehran about reaction in Iran to threats of sanctions if Iran continues its nuclear program.