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The Orphan Drug Act was created to help patients with rare diseases get life-saving medications. But soaring prices suggest the law is being manipulated to increase profits.

After protesters blockaded a Kiev courthouse, the head of Ukraine's tax authority is now in pre-trial detention in a $75 million embezzlement scheme. Activists are celebrating his arrest as the biggest victory against corruption in Ukrainian history.

It's widely expected that the Federal Reserve will decide to raise interest rates another quarter point. It would be only the third rate hike since the financial crisis began in 2008.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with CeCe Sieffert of the International Rhino Foundation about the poaching attack that occurred in a zoo outside Paris in which a white rhino was killed for its horn.

The Federal Reserve announced it has raised interest rates by 0.25 percent, and bank policymakers project at least two more rate increases this year. Chair Janet Yellen spoke with journalists about the Fed's reasoning.

The Fed also said it is looking to increase rates three times in 2018, as inflation approaches the central bank's target annual rate of 2 percent and the unemployment rate appears stable.

Jesus' tomb has been freshened up in time for Easter. "This monument today is free," said Antonia Moropoulou, who led the Greek team that handled the renovations.

On his debut album, the "Classic Man" singer reaches back to his Nigerian roots and explores the concept of a figure whose fierceness belies his deep love for family.

Neil Gorsuch is a self-proclaimed "originalist." It is a philosophy very different from that of his mentor, Justice Byron White.

The government calls Dadaab a security threat. The judge says: "No single arrest or conviction has been cited nor has it been established why a blanket condemnation should be applied to all refugees."