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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held in the troubled New York City jail that has housed high-profile defendants like Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ghislaine Maxwell and Honduras' former president.

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.

Drug shortages have been a problem for years. We look at the economics that affect the availability of the common cheap drugs in which hospitals rely.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Colorado Public Radio listener Kevin Tenney of Denver, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Only about one in five homes sold in the last year went to a first-time buyer. And the average person buying their first home was 40 years old — a record high. A new report from the National Association of Realtors shows how challenging it's become for young people to get a foothold in today's costly housing market.

The Motorola StarTAC was the world's first flip phone.

All 40 victims of the devastating New Year's Eve fire at a ski resort in the Crans-Montana region of Switzerland were identified over the weekend.

The humble ZIP Code shows up in all kinds of surprising places. Planet Money looks at how it was born, how it transformed the mail and talks to one researcher who argues that it's gone too far.

President Trump said that the country's decimated oil infrastructure will be rebuilt and start making money again.

President Trump has held up election security as a major issue, but while Congress is considering new voting laws before this year's midterms, elections are primarily run by states.