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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about efforts to fight surprise or hidden charges known as junk fees.

Elvis in Tennessee. Bon Jovi in New Jersey. Those are two of the top Google searches discovered by the real estate website Estately, which determined the top searches in each state.

Officials say Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello was disciplined for mishandling $1.9 million in parish funds. He faced scrutiny last year for letting Carpenter film a music video at his Brooklyn church.

A new book explores California's giant redwoods — some of the largest living organisms in the world. Devoted naturalists are climbing to the treetops to learn more about the "green ocean" overhead in the redwood canopies.

The increases add to signs that the economy continues to rebound from the 2007-09 recession and the slow recovery that followed.

Listener Carlos (Charlie) Garcia plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Most people turn to Wikipedia to learn, well, just about everything. This Michigander is using social media to highlight the weird and the wacky that can be found on the site.

Many rich countries, like the U.S. and Japan, are getting old. Meanwhile, countries in the developing world are staying young. Here's what that looks like over the course of a century.

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