In the NBA, statistics can tell you a lot about how a team played: rebounds, assists, blocked shots. But then there are the intangibles that defied the numbers in game one of the finals, when the San Antonio Spurs beat the Miami Heat.
In 2011, a company called Oasis Research sued more than a dozen tech companies it said were violating its patent for online data backup. Now that the litigation has ended, we get a rare look inside the world of patent lawsuits and find out just how much money was at stake.
May was another month of steady but modest job growth. Employers across the economy added 175,000 jobs last month, in line with analyst predictions. The unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent.
Robert Siegel speaks with columnist David Brooks of The New York Times and Jane Mayer, staff writer for The New Yorker about this week's big disclosures of data collection by the National Security Agency.
President Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping as details emerge about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. Obama defended the programs at an event Friday morning. Audie Cornish talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro.
