Law

The maker of 'Fortnite' will begin a courtroom fight with high stakes

5:13am November 06, 2023

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Adi Robertson of The Verge about Epic Games set to be in federal court in San Francisco Monday for the start of an anti-trust case against Google.

Politics & Government

Morning news brief

5:13am November 06, 2023

Israel presses its military operation in Gaza. Ex-President Trump to testify in fraud trial. Epic Games will be in federal court in San Francisco for the start of an anti-trust case against Google.

Politics & Government

Former President Donald Trump is set to testify in New York fraud trial

5:13am November 06, 2023

Trump and three of his children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, are testifying before a New York judge. They are facing questions over fraudulent Trump Organization financial statements.

The Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

National

Youths say boredom and basic needs landed them at Maryland detention centers

5:13am November 06, 2023

Incarcerated teens tell NPR how they landed at detention centers in Maryland.

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, U.S. Capitol Police push back rioters trying to enter the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Ex-State Department aide sentenced to nearly 6 years in Capitol riot attacks

1:54am November 06, 2023

by The Associated Press

Federico Klein joined other Trump supporters in one of the most violent episodes of the Jan. 6 siege — a mob's fight with outnumbered police for control of a Capitol tunnel entrance.

Kris Perry (left) and Sandy Stier, two plaintiffs in the landmark 2010 lawsuit that overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage, share photographs from their wedding ceremony during an interview at the KQED offices in San Francisco on March 3. Stier and Perry came to the studio to watch clips of their testimony in federal court, which KQED had fought to get unsealed, for the first time.

This trial struck down California's same-sex marriage ban. Now you can see the tapes

8:00am November 04, 2023

by Scott Shafer

More than a decade after the trial to overturn Prop. 8 ended, trial videotapes remained sealed, until NPR member station KQED won a long legal battle that got the U.S. Supreme Court to unseal them.

The Indiana Supreme Court has found the state's attorney general, Todd Rokita, violated professional conduct rules in his remarks about an abortion provider. Rokita is seen here speaking in Indianapolis in 2021.

Indiana high court reprimands AG for remarks about 10-year-old rape victim's doctor

4:34pm November 03, 2023

by Bill Chappell

Both the attorney general and the doctor have now been separately reprimanded over the case, which ignited a media firestorm after abortion rights were overturned at the federal level.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is found guilty of all charges including fraud

7:05am November 03, 2023

A jury in New York found the so-called crypt king guilty of securities fraud and six other criminal counts. Now, the founder of the crypto firm FTX could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Queue Listen Now

Settlement: Uber and Lyft drivers in New York will get $328 million in back pay

5:11am November 03, 2023

by A Martínez

Uber and Lyft will pay to settle allegations they short-changed drivers. The $290 million from Uber and $38 million from Lyft will go to drivers for Uber from 2014 to 2017 and Lyft from 2015 to 2017.

Queue Listen Now

Sam Bankman-Fried leaves a Manhattan federal court in New York City on Jan. 3, 2023.

Economy

Sam Bankman-Fried is found guilty of all charges in FTX's spectacular collapse

10:21pm November 02, 2023

by David Gura

The conviction marks a spectacular fall from grace for a once shining star in finance. He faces decades in prison.