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Hasina Islam fostered a love of reading and the library in Abigail Jean, who is 12. Abigail was just 3 when they met at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Theaters closed due to the coronavirus pandemic are struggling to get work to the public. Some are doing plays for podcast, others are turning what would have been stage works into audio drama.

When it comes to controlling the spread of the coronavirus, stay-at-home orders work. Two new studies published in the journal Nature say millions of lives have been saved worldwide.

The greetings investors are giving initial public offerings from Lyft and Levi Strauss demonstrate what Wall Street values and what it does not.

Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a group continues his work on a new medium -- the internet.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to social media researcher Jennifer Grygiel about why social media companies didn't react sooner to President Trump's online presence.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to let small businesses get financed by the masses. Investing in startups is risky, though. Meanwhile, critics are wary of regulation.

A new study finds that chimpanzee babies pick up communication styles from their mothers.

Republican officials and far-right influencers have ratcheted up rhetoric describing immigrants. Extremism experts warn it represents a dangerous mainstreaming of white nationalist talking points.

Major League Baseball played at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday. It is where Willie Mays, who died this week at age 93, made his professional debut in the Negro Leagues.

Small businesses are scrambling to figure out the cost of tariffs. Most are passing on some of the cost to American customers.

Mississippi has historically had some of the highest vaccination rates in the U.S. But that number is slipping amid a wider trend of declining childhood vaccination rates across the country.

The Sudanese diaspora in the U.S. is fighting to keep the world's attention focused on the catastrophic fallout from the war back home. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on 10/20/24.)

An emerging film festival in Lagos, Nigeria, is trying to change the stories mainstream Nigerian films tell.

In 2023, unions added 139,000 members, but the share of the U.S. workforce that's unionized declined from the year before due to even faster growth in nonunion jobs.

Retail sales jumped nearly 10% in March, as shoppers, flush with $1,400 relief payments, are feeling more confident about venturing out. Weekly unemployment claims dropped to a pandemic low.

The U.S. Supreme Court dodged a direct ruling on President Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from a census count used to allocate congressional districts to states.

The Taliban are at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan is shuttered. A small group of U.S. diplomats are now working out of a makeshift office at Kabul's airport.

States have long sought to restrict cellphone use by drivers because of safety concerns, and as the new year begins, several states are toughening their laws. It turns out it's a hard habit to break. And for government officials, it's not easy to stay ahead of tech advances.

Exceptional drought is erased from the Panhandle after days of rain, but the rains that fell across South Florida didn't do much, and a moderate drought now inches closer to parts of Metro South Florida

The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.

Americans owe more than ever before, with household debt hitting nearly $13 trillion. Some economists say the lessons of the credit bubble that led to the financial crisis are being forgotten.

Justin Leonard and Matthew Kurvink, who are serving sentences for armed robbery, share what it's like to train wild horses at Four Mile Correctional Facility in Colorado.

Mary Catherine O'Brien says when she married her husband, Greg, in 1977, he was funny and outgoing. Alzheimer's disease has stolen much of that, she says, but the two are closer than ever.

Russia, Iran and China have all attempted to shape the narrative, but so far, their influence has been relatively minor, experts say.