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  • Traffic police in southwest China are telling drivers accused of minor offenses they can avoid a fine if they confess on social media. But the confession must get 20 likes.
  • Researchers in Singapore say they've built a robot that was able to put together a chair from IKEA in about 20 minutes.
  • A catastrophic failure on a Southwest Airlines flight killed one passenger and injured several others this week. It's prompted airlines around the world to inspect certain kinds of airplane engines.
  • Unemployment in Michigan was down slightly in March. Toxic PFAS chemicals found in private wells near the Gerald R. Ford Airport in Grand Rapids. WMU…
  • Starbucks plans to close 8,000 stores for an afternoon to give employees racial bias training. Will it work? You can retrain your brain to see people differently but not over a short period of time.
  • The administration says the steel and aluminum tariffs will raise costs just slightly. But in a low-margin business like canned goods, a little extra cost can take a deep bite out of profits.
  • Bernie Dalton had a dream to make music, but when he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, he was even more determined.
  • Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces multiple ethics investigations. Former Office of Government Ethics general counsel Don Fox talks with NPR's David Greene.
  • A couple in England feared their dog had cancer. A scan showed a mass on her spleen. The vet went in to do surgery, only to find it was a mass of teddy bears in the dog's stomach, the BBC says.
  • Sen. Tammy Duckworth made history on Thursday. After a change in the Senate rules, the Illinois Democrat became the first U.S. senator to cast a vote with a baby in tow.
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