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The Daily Beast editor joins Steve Inskeep to chat about the best things she's been reading lately. This month, the selections focus on three contemporary American icons and the ways in which they are presented and understood.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with McKay Coppins of The Atlantic about what he says could be the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history — one intended to reelect President Trump.

For migrants traveling north to the U.S.-Mexico border from countries like Chile and Brazil, the trip has become virtually impossible without two things — a smuggler and social media.

Read the full transcript from the Oct. 13 hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Mark Meadows, depicted a West Wing where some were very concerned about violence erupting at the Capitol and others, like Meadows and the former president, were not.

The number of fires so far this year — 42,745 — is down from the same period in 2011. But blazes have been larger. Many have been fueled by parched conditions in much of the nation.

Employers added far more jobs than expected in April — another sign the U.S. economy is chugging along as the expansion nears the 10-year mark. The unemployment rate was the lowest since 1969.

The FDA authorizes the first antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 at home. The House Jan. 6 panel wants to talk to Trump ally Rep. Jordan. Russian President Putin holds his annual year-end new conference.

Advertisers collect information with every digital move people make. They then target ads based on that information. Communications scholar Joseph Turow worries that advertisers will use such data to discriminate against people and put them into "reputation silos."