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The move comes as the company is in the midst of national contract talks with the United Auto Workers union, which wants to represent workers at battery factories and win them top wages.

The House Jan. 6 committee heard testimony from state officials and election workers testifying about pressure from President Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

More than 1,000 people have now been charged for the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. NPR has tracked every case from arrest to sentencing. Here's what is happening to those charged.

We had 140 jazz journalists weigh in on their favorite releases of the year. Here are their top overall picks, with top finishers in Latin jazz, vocal, debut and historical categories.

ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger says that the government undermines the notion of equity and fails to deter crime when it allows large corporations to settle lawsuits by paying fines.

As Community Health Systems has downsized, what remain are like zombie hospitals – little more than legal entities still taking patients to court even though the new owners don't sue.

A new grant is helping Olympians and Paralympians pay for child care while they compete in Tokyo. The $200,000 child-care grant is from the Women's Sports Foundation and clothing maker Athleta.

Trump’s campaign promises included adding a 10% to 20% tariff on all nondomestic goods sold in America, a 60% tariff on goods from China and reciprocal tariffs on nations that impose tariffs on the U.S. Then, on Nov. 25, Trump promised new 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada.

A new report by the Florida Association of Community Health Centers shows the centers provided care to more than 1.4 million patients last year, and made…

A 10th week at the top of the Billboard pop chart is quite an accomplishment. Before the 2000s, that was the rarest of feats. In the days of streaming though, it's become more common.

The entertainment company estimates there are now 100 million households using someone else's account. Last month, it announced plans to start charging for password sharing.

The Florida Board of Governors approved New College of Florida's accountability plan, which lowered performance expectations.

Sentencing scheduled Friday in federal court in Washington D.C. for Naples resident Christopher Worrell has been cancelled and rescheduled at a later date while federal authorities are looking for him.

Noah and Robert read letters from All Things Considered listeners. This week's topics include the history of the screw (and screwdriver), visions of the Virgin Mary, and the squeezing of baked goods in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. (3:30) You can send e-mail to atc@npr.org or via the post office: Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001.

Robert Siegel and Lynn Neary read some of this week's letters from listeners. Topics include the closing time of pubs in London, Victoria's Secret's lawsuit against Victor's Little Secret, and whether the well-being of the state of California or the state of Maine predicts the health of the nation. Send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

- Daniel speaks with reporter Virginia Biggar about the other political convention that opens today, that of Ross Perot's Reform, Party. Biggar explains that today's event in Dallas, where Perot and his rival, former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm will deliver speeches, is only the first part of a two-phase convention. The second phase, she says, will include voting by mail and e-mail and the announcement of the party's candidate next Sunday.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that AT&T announced an aggressive expansion of its wireless telephone services today. The company plans to make a package of wireless services -- including data, paging and e-mail -- available in forty of the nation's largest markets. Several other companies are racing to provide similar services on a national basis.

Guest host John Ydstie talks with Simson Garfinkel, a graduate student at MIT. Garfinkel and another MIT student recently purchased 158 used hard drives and found more than 5,000 credit card numbers, detailed personal and corporate financial records, numerous medical records, gigabytes of personal email and pornography.

Noah Adams reads from listeners letters. Today, topics include dairy cattle being slaughtered on a farm in Wales due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the demise of the Mir space station, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Listeners should send letters to: Letters, All Things Considered, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Or e-mail to atc@npr.org.

Melissa Block and Michele Norris read from listeners' letters and e-mails. Among this week's topics: our series on legal immigration, David Schaper's story on the good side of urban sprawl, and Michele Norris's piece about the 25th anniversary of the death of Bob Marley.

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) accuses CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson of working to politicize public broadcasting at a mid-day press conference. At the session, Dorgan released CPB emails and other documents showing "raw data" from a report Tomlinson secretly commissioned to track public broadcasting shows for political content.

Today marks the last installment -- for now, anyway -- of the National Story Project with writer Paul Auster and NPR's Jacki Lyden. But eventhough the National Story Project is on hiatus from broadcast we welcome your story submissions on-line. You can email those to nationalstoryproject@npr.org.

Technological interruptions are no longer limited to cellphones ringing at the matinee. Today, parents with BlackBerrys, hand-held email devices, show up at school concerts, soccer games, yoga, even the dinner table -- and their kids have had enough. Katherine Rosman talks about her Wall Street Journal piece, "BlackBerry Orphans."

Commentator Ralph Schoenstein says the wave of computerized toys aimed at children this summer will give them acute digital delirium. Active children, says Schoenstein, will be replaced by interactive ones. Toys will feature computerized voices. And kids three-years and older will be able to send and receive e-mail thanks to hand-held comunications devices marketed to them.

America Online spent much of yesterday offline, with problems that began early in the morning and lasted until late last night. America Online officials explained that the outage was caused by a faulty installation of internal system software. Thousands of small businesses and others were left without access to e-mail and other network services and many learned that that they are more dependent on computer networks than they realized. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.