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With help from Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Dr. John returns to the spooky, percussive sounds of his first records on Locked Down.

In 2007, Congress created a public-private foundation to support research of interest to the FDA. Critics said this amounted to a new way for industry groups to influence the agency's decisions, and any FDA funding for the foundation was blocked for years. That's about to change.

People in the West African nation of Mali are having mixed reactions to the recent military coup, the sanctions imposed by the regional economic bloc as well as the loss of the nation's north to Tuareg insurgents seeking to impose

More details are emerging about the shooting that left 7 dead at an Oakland university on Monday. The suspect is One Goh, a former nursing student at the school.

On today's show, we speak with Joshua Piker, an associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. Prof. Piker will give the 2012…

By some projections, more than half of the delegates to the Republican convention will be committed by the end of Tuesday's voting in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia. It would mean Mitt Romney's lead will be all but insurmountable.

A particular phrase we used in last week's coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting prompted many listener comments. Last week we also spoke to baseball legends (and New York Yankees) Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry. Host Scott Simon reads from listeners' letters.

McCartney talks about his new album, a collection of standards he heard while growing up in Liverpool. And comedian Aziz Ansari riffs on marriage, babies — and self-deprecating rappers.

An iPhone and iPad were worth more to a Chinese teenager than his kidney, according to a report Friday from China's Xinhua news agency. Now five people in southern China face charges of illegal organ trading.

Both President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney made general-election-esque speeches this week, further closing the gap between the two men in the upcoming presidential election. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan speaks with James Fallows of The Atlantic about the news that made headlines this week.