POLITICO’s California Playbook and joins with the latest on state politics. Also, the challenges of the general public to ...

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.

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.

Why is building affordable housing so hard these days? We talk to author Derek Thompson about his new book with Ezra Klein, <a href=" about what they believe is keeping affordable housing out of reach ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

Memorial Day marks the start of the summer travel season. Many Americans are feeling more budget-conscious but that won't stop them from hitting the road.