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Steve Inskeep talks to Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, about the global economy, and the need to leverage the role of women in finance.

President Biden announced a suite of new sanctions aimed at Russia's biggest banks and said Western leaders are determined to hold Moscow accountable for attacking Ukraine.

Nearly three months after the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, insurgents continue to disrupt the interim government's efforts to achieve control. Hear NPR's Scott Simon, Bathsheba Crocker of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Gen. William Nash of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The payment was allegedly part of a bribe to help South Africa secure the right to host the World Cup. The revelation brings the bribery scandal closer to FIFA's longtime president.

A new biography chronicles the extraordinary life of the Sioux warrior Red Cloud. In the 1860's, when settlers were encroaching on Sioux territory, he led — and won — a two-year war against the U.S. Renee Montagne talks with authors Bob Drury and Tom Clavin about the book, The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend.

The webinar discussed benefits of adopting the Advanced Clean Car II program, which the Sierra Club says is the best tool states have for slashing emissions from the transportation sector.

China is testing a new plan to make it easier for citizens do business, but also to help them trust each other more. It's called the social credit score.

In a night when Eilish, the youngest artist to win Album and Record of the year, might have otherwise been the whole story, the Recording Academy could not quite put its recent scandals behind it.

A group says the Chinese government backed an attack against users of Apple's iCloud service. Experts worry attacks that target weaknesses in the transfer of data on the cloud will become more common.

Most health plans accept a credit card for the first month's premium and then require customers to pay monthly with a check or an electronic transfer from a bank account. For people without a banking relationship, these transactions can be tricky.