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James Linton tricked many high-profile people into having conversations with him over email by using other people's identities. NPR's Elise Hu speaks with Linton about how relatively easy it was and why he has decided to retire.

NPR's Elise Hu speaks with Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director at the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi. She talks about how the air pollution is so bad, United Airlines had to cancel flights over the weekend, factories had to be shut down and schools had to close at one point.

The district attorney filed new charges against members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity Monday, saying recently recovered video shows them giving Timothy Piazza massive amounts of alcohol.

Gloria and Bill Single lived together in a nursing home until she was evicted without warning. Complaints about illegal evictions from nursing homes are up 73 percent in California since 2011.

After several years of nearly no growth in planetary carbon emissions, human-created carbon output is projected to rise again. That means the past few years were a pause, not a peak, researchers say.

Native Americans reported discrimination far more often in employment and in interactions with law enforcement if they lived on tribal lands or areas where the population is mostly Native American.

The quake, with its epicenter in neighboring Iraq, has killed at least 430 people in both countries, according to official figures.

Neither the House nor Senate proposals do much for the lowest-income Americans, and some higher-income people could gain a lot.

Half of American Indians living in majority-Native areas say they or a family member feels he or she has been treated unfairly by the courts, according to an NPR poll.

Wine writer Jon Bonné says that the traditional ways of thinking about wine no longer fit today's diversity of flavors and cultural influences — and that drinking it should be mainly about pleasure.