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Our Planet Money team looks back on the early days of the Internet when buying with one click seemed novel enough to warrant a patent, and how this gave Amazon an advantage.

Hurricane Maria is pounding Puerto Rico with strong winds and rain. Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske is in San Juan.

International Women's Day has taken on a life of its own. Here's how it's celebrated around the world.

The team that signed Bruno Fernandes de Souza says he "deserves a new opportunity." Souza, sentenced to 22 years in prison for ordering the 2010 murder, was recently released on a technicality.

In the city of Detroit, after the unrest in the 1960's, the flight of many to the suburbs and the decline of businesses, many neighbors are finding a way to survive financially, through bartering.

Simon Cheng, a former U.K. Consulate worker, says he was tortured in mainland China in a series of interviews. He says Chinese authorities falsely suspected him of spying for the U.K. in Hong Kong.

Viral footage of the incident captured by bystanders has already prompted an internal police probe, a $10 million civil rights claim and a chorus of fury on social media.

Opponents of President Trump are increasing public pressure on those who contribute to the Trump reelection campaign. One major Trump donor faces a call for a boycott of a business he owns, SoulCycle.

Forecasters say an estimated 300 cold-weather records are expected to be tied or broken through Wednesday. The "arctic outbreak" is being blamed for four deaths so far.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke and Texas voters about his plans to address privacy rights and immigration issues, as part of the series Off Script.