NPR's Steve Inskeep asks business news analyst Jill Schlesinger how high oil and gas prices from the Iran war affect consumer budgets.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jacqueline Smith of the International Transport Workers' Federation about conditions for sailors stranded on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

As climate change, wildfires and other extreme weather events intensify, the demand for native seeds is surging in order to help preserve plant biodiversity.

Starting May 1, many people covered by Medicaid in Nebraska have to prove they are working. It's a requirement most states ...

The protest organizers are calling for a boycott of work, school and shopping to protest Trump administration policies and ...

Today, most people know the word as a synonym for "destroy." But fewer realize its origins — or that it's come to mean ...

Passenger railroads in the U.S. have seen a jump in ridership as gas prices surged in the wake of war in Iran. Brightline, the privately-run railroad in Florida, had its best month ever in March.

Camp Mystic, the private all-girls camp where 27 people died in last year's flooding in central Texas, announced that it is withdrawing its application to reopen this summer.

State television in Myanmar says detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred from prison to house arrest ...

The trend among boys and young men of optimizing their physical appearance includes dangerous practices. Experts offer advice ...