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Pu Ying Huang (left) and Dylan Baddour walk along an empty street in Cajamarca, Peru, on March 18, while they were moving from a small hotel room to an Airbnb to ride out the country's 15-day lockdown.

Opinion: I'm An American Stuck In Peru — Glad To Be On Lockdown To Avoid COVID-19

Journalist Dylan Baddour is among the thousands of Americans in Peru waiting to return to the United States during the coronavirus outbreak.

In 'Wine Girl,' Taking On The Old Boys Of The Wine World

Victoria James loves wine; she became a sommelier at 21 — but she discovered that the world of wine was an old boys' club that didn't welcome women. Her new memoir chronicles her fight to fit in.

Asma Al Sabag, a contact tracer for San Diego County, makes phone calls in this undated photo.

San Diego's Contact Tracing Program Not Keeping Up With Virus Surge

Contact tracing is meant to be one of the big strategies that will allow San Diego County to finally slow the spread of the coronavirus. But it has some big limitations.

After the messy reporting of the Iowa caucus results, some who build tech for progressive causes say the approach to software development in this space needs rethinking.

After Iowa Debacle, Tech Experts Who Aid Progressives Call For A Strategic Shake-Up

The failure of this year's Iowa caucuses was years in the making, some technology specialists argue, in part because of the haphazard way political users buy software.

NPR's Nina Totenberg with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2018.

A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call

NPR's Nina Totenberg first encountered law professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1971. They became close friends after Ginsburg moved to Washington to serve on the federal appeals court.

"We look forward to defending against Mr. Damore's lawsuit in court," a Google spokesperson told Reuters.

James Damore Sues Google, Alleging Discrimination Against Conservative White Men

The former Google engineer was fired after he criticized the company's diversity efforts and suggested that innate differences between men and women explain gender gaps in the tech sector.

The viral face-transforming FaceApp climbed to the top of the App Store on Wednesday.

Democrats Issue Warnings Against Viral Russia-Based Face-Morphing App

FaceApp's surge in popularity has driven Sen. Chuck Schumer to call for a federal investigation into the St. Petersburg-developed app over potential "national security and privacy risks" to Americans.

Stone & Snow submitted its entry "Cruel" to the 2020 Tiny Desk Contest.

The Best 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Saw This Week: Volume 5

This week, our favorite entries bring you raucous guitars, resilience, contemplation and lots of houseplants. There's still time to enter; send us your video by April 27.

In this April 30, 2019 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, makes the keynote speech at F8, the Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, Calif.

Report: FTC Approves Roughly $5B Fine For Facebook

The FTC has voted to approve a fine of about $5 billion for Facebook over privacy violations, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The report cited an unnamed person familiar with the matter.

In making her case for electability, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has repeatedly said she's the Democratic presidential candidate who "brings the receipts."

What Amy Klobuchar Is Really Saying When She Talks About Having 'Receipts'

The senator from Minnesota often references "the receipts," an online slang phrase, on the presidential campaign trail. Linguists say it emphasizes accountability and works across audiences.

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