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In the show Squid Game, the poor compete to the death for money to pay their debts. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with L.A. Times reporter Victoria Kim on the underground world of South Korea's loan sharks.

Mattress Firm, Claire's, Guitar Center are bankruptcy survivors going from a year of shuttered stores to planning a new life as publicly traded companies.

Fighting between government forces and Tigrayan rebels is escalating in Ethiopia's north. The government is bombing targets in the rebel capital and there's a bloody battle over two strategic towns.

Unrest increases in Caracas, Venezuela, where leftist president Hugo Chavez faces heavy opposition from capitalists. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.

Several Israeli newspapers report that al Qaeda is planning attacks on Israeli citizens in Prague, where 250,000 Israelis travel each year. Several other cities in Africa, the Middle East and Asia were cited as possible targets. NPR's Linda Gradstein reports.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa and producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. about their reporting on the aftermath of the largest single-state immigration raid in U.S. history.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Joseph Margulies, a criminal law expert, about how citizen's arrest laws factor into the trial of three white men charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

The Food and Drug Administration also gave an OK to boosters that differ from the vaccine originally used to immunize people against COVID-19. A mix-and-match approach could ease the booster rollout.

More than 80,000 homes in North Carolina are still without heat or electricity four days after an ice storm knocked power out for more than 1 million people. Hundreds of National Guard troops are going door to door to check on residents. NPR News reports.

As inspectors continue looking for weapons in Iraq, the U.N. and the United States begin to examine the country's official response to charges it has ongoing weapons programs. Iraq says it has no weapons of mass destruction. The Bush Administration says Iraq is lying. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and Vicky O'Hara.