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The White House proposes major changes to encourage individuals to save more money toward retirement. The plan would replace Individual Retirement Accounts with personal-savings accounts featuring higher allowable contributions. Critics say the proposals would increase federal deficits. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

Top Fannie Mae executives defend the company's accounting practices in Congress. CEO Franklin Raines denied allegations the company had manipulated its books, telling lawmakers the controversy at the mortgage giant stems from different ways to interpret complex accounting rules. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

The Associated Press, NPR and the BBC have all had their Twitter accounts hijacked in recent weeks. Hacks of high-profile accounts have real-world consequences, and the security at Twitter is coming under increased scrutiny.

Without uniformity around who controls digital assets after you die, families have to rely on Internet companies' varying terms of agreements. It can be a maddening lack of certainty in an already difficult time.

A Twitter account was posing as the new Taliban-appointed head of the school when it said women would be barred. But the chancellor tells NPR female professors and students will resume their studies.

Muscovites will have their movements followed through a program required on their smartphones. They will also have to carry a new QR code with their personal data.

Also: an interview with a copyeditor; a portrait of Hilary Mantel will be shown in the British Library.

The Russian Kinzhal was intercepted during an air strike over Kyiv earlier this week, a Ukrainian official said. It is the first known time the sophisticated Russian missile has been shot down.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy called the attack on a Dnipro medical clinic a "crime against humanity." Video of the scene showed smoke pouring out of a badly damaged building.

The Ukrainian energy minister said the nighttime drone and rocket attacks were "the largest attack on the Ukrainian energy sector in recent times." At least three people were killed, officials said.