A 90-day pause on triple-digit U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods has left exporters and importers in a high state of uncertainty. Factory owners in China tell NPR that orders are down overall.

Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.

Gen Z and younger millennials are the most climate literate generations the world has ever seen. They learned about climate ...

Five years after George Floyd's murder sent employers rushing to hire diversity experts, big companies are backing away from their DEI promises -- and the employees they hired to work on them.

President Trump wants to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. We visit Worchester, Massachusetts, which once made things like wire and paper, to see how manufacturing there has changed.

Lewis Pugh wants to change public perceptions and encourage protections for sharks — which he said the film maligned as ...

It’s not always easy getting the average person obsessed with snakes. But some enthusiasts want to change that — like Michael ...

Today on the show, we bring you a special episode from the Understood feed at CBC podcasts. It's an excerpt from a series ...

We remember Broadway composer Charles Strouse, who died May 15 at age 96. He wrote the music for the hit musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Annie, which included such songs as "Put On a Happy Face," "A ...

Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal would reduce the workweek for In-Home Support Service workers by 16 hours. A local ...

Many in agriculture are worried that Trump administration tariffs will be bad for their bottom lines. The American sheep industry, though, is cautiously optimistic.

The bills included ones to fund a voter-approved Prop 36, regulate major ticketing events and further expand health care to ...