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Hedge fund and private equity managers came out of the "fiscal cliff" agreement with a better tax setup than many affluent taxpayers. It largely keeps in place a practice that allows them to have their earnings taxed at a capital gains rate rather than at a higher rate for ordinary income.

Wells Fargo will pay $3.7 billion to settle charges for wrongfully seizing homes and cars. This is the largest penalty ever imposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Once a powerful man in Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of three of seven charges in his second sex crimes trial. He is already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Martin Pengelly of The Guardian, who obtained a copy of Spare before it was published. The book has created a major scandal involving the British royal family.

President Biden is in Mexico City to discuss issues like migration, climate and fentanyl with Mexico's López Obrador and Canada's Trudeau.

Authorities already had planned to highlight the attacks — then came word of yet another shooting with a political target.

Biden was received in Mexico City Sunday night by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. They will spend the next two days meeting with each other and with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Jeff Beck, know as a "guitarist's guitarist," had contracted bacterial meningitis. Beck first came to prominence playing in The Yardbirds, where he replaced Eric Clapton.

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its powerful AI tool ChatGPT will now be used in its search service Bing. Google unveiled its own AI tool — a competitor to ChatGPT — roughly 24 hours before.

KC Green just marked the 10th anniversary of his 2013 comic strip that spawned the "This is fine" meme. He reflects on the smiling dog's popularity. (Story first aired on ATC on Jan. 23, 2023.)