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Some firms use motion sensors and wireless tags to find out how people actually work. That can yield useful data — like which free snacks tend to attract people to break rooms more than others.

Negotiators reached agreement on a political framework for preventing Iran's development of a nuclear bomb. Steve Inskeep talks to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken about the nuclear talks.

The two justices — sometimes called the Odd Couple of the Supreme Court — have been friends for decades. They shared their disagreements and affection at an evening at George Washington University.

Some of the most contentious moments in this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings came during questions from Republican senators believed to be harboring ambitions to run for president.

Judge Jackson defended her record of sentences she handed down in child pornography cases after several Republican senators alleged she was soft on crime.

Sex is a topic not often broached in a conservative Muslim country like Pakistan. Yet a cable TV program hosted by a male doctor has proved popular, particularly among 30-something women.

North Carolina doesn't just give its students grades. Joining several other states, it now grades its schools, too, on the old A through F system.

The oil glut of 2020 drove crude prices down to -$38 a barrel, forcing U.S. producers to cap wells and lay off workers. Now, oilfield supplies are scarce and expensive and there's a labor shortage.

Artist Michelle Browder's sculpture of enslaved women who were experimented on by "father of gynecology" Dr. Sims was highlighted in a conference on Black women and maternal health in Montgomery, Ala.

It contends, in part, that the CDC has overstepped its legal authority in requiring masks for travelers.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Soraya Nadia McDonald, senior culture critic for Andscape, formerly The Undefeated, about the implications of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.

The women's division 1 college basketball tournament soon comes to a close in Minneapolis. Many wonder whether changes in the event have put it on more a equal footing with the men's tournament.

The law will be phased in and eventually will require all Florida high school students to earn a half-credit on how to handle their money.

NPR's Leila Fadel visits a hospital in the western city of Lviv in Ukraine that treats cancer patients to see how Russia's war has affected treatments for some of country's sickest people.

The politically inexperienced Yoon Suk Yeol's pledge to get tough on North Korea could mark a sharp break with the outgoing liberal administration's policies.

Troops from 27 countries wrapped up one of the largest NATO war games since the 1980s — in the Arctic. A it was scheduled two years ago, but Russia's war in Ukraine gave the exercise a Cold War feel.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with infectious disease specialist Dr. Celine Gounder about the evolving guidance around COVID and the tools we have to fight it.

Telegram is Volodymyr Zelenskyy's preferred means of communications. The app and its founder have a complicated history.

President Biden is leaving for Brussels and Warsaw, a trip where he plans to meet with NATO allies, and discuss how to hold Russia to account for its invasion of Ukraine.

About 300,000 American military personnel are expected to be deployed to the Persian Gulf -- the largest mobilization since Desert Storm. Among those with orders to deploy is one small unit, the Army's 85th Medical Division, with a unique mission: keeping soldiers mentally fit to fight under the stress of combat. NPR's Richard Knox reports from Fort Hood, Texas.

Opening for the first time in three years, the festival brings memories of 2006 when the annual celebration of music and culture went on after Hurricane Katrina.

The Senate confirms the first Black woman as justice on the U.S. Supreme Court and also deals additional rebukes to Russia on trade.

The Supreme Court draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade sparked outrage among abortion rights supporters, but a mix of celebration and caution among opponents crosswise with public opinion.

The San Francisco Bay Area is in its fifth surge of the pandemic, surpassing last summer's Delta variant peak. But public health officials says this wave is different.

Political primary season is beginning in earnest, as voters head to the polls in Ohio and Indiana. The marquee races are in Ohio, led by that state's open U.S. Senate seat.