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NPR's Scott Simon asks science writer David Quammen about horizontal gene transfer and how it changes how we think about humankind's place in the world. Quammen's new book is The Tangled Tree.

As Director of Vertical Initiatives (and Mischief) at NPR, Matt Thompson works with teams across the company to guide the development of topic-focused verticals covering race, ethnicity and culture; education; and global health and development.

The truck had been packed with at least 160 migrants when it crashed into a support for a pedestrian bridge in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about JPMorgan Chase buying First Republic Bank's deposits, some assets and certain liabilities.

Drugmakers offer medicines at a bargain price to hospitals that treat large numbers of poor patients. Hospitals sometimes resell the drugs at full price and make hefty profits.

New York Times journalist Alan Feuer says some members of Trump's inner circle have close ties to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, whose leaders have been charged with seditious conspiracy.

Spies imitating art: Years after Judi Dench played James Bond's boss, Britain's MI6 spy agency is getting its first female chief.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., about the eighth and final Jan. 6 hearing.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has issued five new subpoenas for witnesses lawmakers want to hear from, in addition to 40 witnesses subpoenaed already.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the latest on the investigation and action by Congress.