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Executives pledged to make diversity a priority, but the past year has highlighted how difficult it is to implement change in corporate America.

The U.S has sent humanitarian aid to help Syrian civilians, but only a small number of refugees have been allowed into America. Now the U.S. says it will increase the number of those admitted.

The labor board broadened the definition of joint employers — allowing temps, including many who are in the country illegally, to organize. But those immigrants face extra risk if bosses retaliate.

It's been two years since a police officer killed George Floyd on a Minneapolis street corner, setting off worldwide protests. Many locals are frustrated that policing reforms have not materialized.

President Biden is set to give his Tuesday night address at a moment when the White House is tackling the Ukraine crisis, soaring inflation and the lingering pandemic.

Brazil is experiencing the worst moment so far of the pandemic. Deaths are out of control and hospitals are at risk of collapse. The transmission rates of the virus and its variants are accelerating.

The pandemic and its economic effects are a political weight on President Biden.

The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics began Friday in Beijing with all of the glitz of past Games, though the stadium was nearly empty of spectators because of COVID concerns.

Supreme Court justices sparred over the fairness of capital punishment Monday as they wrapped up their last death-penalty case of the term. It was a surprisingly spirited conclusion to a case from Kansas that had received little attention.

The Trump Organization and longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg will be tried on tax fraud charges. A judge refused to dismiss the charges and scheduled jury selection for October.

China is no stranger to ethnic violence, but militants are now using suicide attacks and targeting civilians. Beijing say foreign Islamist influence is behind the new, more sophisticated tactics.

In the vast network of tunnels is where the ammunition, weapons and rocket launchers are kept. It's also where they have command and control centers.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Danielle Prokop of Source New Mexico, a States Newsroom affiliate, about the significance of the second trial between the state of New Mexico and Meta.

The FDA just approved a breakthrough drug for metastatic pancreatic cancer, which is notoriously hard to treat. In clinical trials, the new pill roughly doubled how long patients survived.

Area's oldest performing arts organization expects to move into new Payne Park theater in January.

University of Miami Rosenstiel scientists hoping to provide a genetic lifeline to Florida’s ailing reef are removing hundreds of colonies of healthy coral off Miami, hoping to outpace a wave of lethal bleaching spreading from the Florida Keys.

Newtown resident Johnny Hunter grew up in the Sarasota community and plans to spend the rest of his life there. He left the area for a while, but returned…

Noel King talks to David Whelan, brother of Paul Whelan, who has been detained in Russia on charges of spying. Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited Whelan in Russian detention.

With a population of 98, Lumber Bridge, N.C., saw a long-lost son come home. 1st Lt. James "Dick" Wright was buried this week, and his World War II heroism honored.

Farai Chideya explores proposals to ban gay marriage, and how the legal arguments for a ban resonate in African-American churches and communities with Dr. Robert Franklin, professor of social ethics at Emory University in Atlanta.

Lance Armstrong's competitive cycling career ends Sunday on the streets of Paris with a seventh straight Tour de France victory. The American racing legend says he will retire at age 33.

Republicans believe COVID policies largely backed by Democrats are causing a schism among parents of school-age children — and that these "angry parents" will help the GOP win elections this year.

President Trump's adviser Roger Stone says he wouldn't be surprised about a potential indictment from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, but he has called the investigation baseless and faulted what he calls an official campaign to keep him quiet.

The day after her beloved Baba Bazorg dies, a little girl remembers some of her favorite things about him: his striped slippers, the mints in his pockets and the fig cookies he always shared.