Search results for

Mayor Bill de Blasio warned that schools in New York City could close as early as Monday. There's a debate over whether schools should be closed while restaurants and bars remain open.

Some say Black sailors have to navigate both unconscious and active bias in the Navy.

Despite the pandemic — or maybe because of it — new businesses are starting at record rates.

Portland, Oregon, will fund clean energy in communities that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. That's an idea that's part of President-elect Joe Biden's sweeping climate plan.

Scientists are trying to restore the range of loons. The iconic birds vanished from Massachusetts lakes decades ago. Loons from Maine are being moved back to those places, and the plan is working.

Sen. Rand Paul forced a vote on whether the Constitution allows the Senate to try a former president. Ahead of the trial it could indicate how many Republicans are open to voting to convict Trump.

Most of the oil and gas drilled in Wyoming comes from federal land and communities there are bracing for job losses and school funding cuts in the wake of a Biden administration pause on new leasing.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with labor writer and organizer Luis Feliz Leon about the impacts of the pandemic on collective bargaining agreements and workers' efforts to unionize.

As the nor'easter works its way along the East Coast, forecasters warn that parts of the region could see snowfall totals of one or even two feet.

Historians in Italy compare Wednesday's events to the rise of fascism. "Violence is incompatible with the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms," Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.