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California often takes the lead with new legislation to rein in tech. This was true for privacy, social media and now it looks to be playing out the same way for generative AI.

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the book Razorblade Tears, the game Assassin's Creed Mirage, and the shows Solitary and Murder in Boston.

The Los Angeles Times has laid off nearly a quarter of its newsroom — and there have been deep job cuts at Time magazine and National Geographic as well.

The Justice Department and 30 states sue to break up Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly and driving up prices for fans.

CVS and Walgreens are ailing. They're closing hundreds of stores, laying off thousands of workers and rethinking their role in our lives.

Cuba's Fidel Castro is often taken for dead if he goes too long without a public appearance. His most recent lengthy absence led to another round of rumors on Twitter that he had died. But it turns out the 85-year-old former revolutionary leader hasn't been ill; he's been working on his memoirs.

At the heart of the student protests overtaking college campuses are demands that their universities divest from companies that do business with Israel.

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to a Brazilian who boosted the country's farming revolution, turning it into a soybean superpower.

States and cities are banning questions about prior pay in the hopes of narrowing gender and racial pay gaps. More employers are finding ways around the legal patchwork by eliminating the question.

A venture capital firm is trying to target entrepreneurs before they create startups, or even have a business idea. There's no crystal ball involved — just public data and predictive analytics.

At Wednesday's argument, the justices struggled to reconcile their own previous decisions enforcing the nation's trademark laws and what some of them saw as a potential threat to free speech.

A floating, smelly mass of seaweed called sargassum is covering beaches in the Caribbean and areas along the Gulf of Mexico.

President Trump said Friday that he was suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, which he called "a direct and blatant attack on our country."

Warner Bros. Discovery is to split into two, separating streaming and studios from its cable channels. The company has been burdened by debt and the decline of cable TV.

Will Starbucks have its first unionized corporate store or stores in the U.S.? Starbucks workers in upstate New York have cast votes on whether to join a union. The result is expected Thursday.

NPR's Alina Selyukh reports on what we know about the impact of boycotts on Target's bottom line and how the company's sales reflect a complex picture.

A new study finds that butterflies probably originated in North or Central America around 100 million years ago. (Story originally aired on All Things Considered on May 15, 2023.)

How healthy is the U.S. economy? How much people spend and what they buy plays a huge role.

The Winn-Dixie Co. will drop from more than 400 locations in five states into 130 conventional groceries and 140 freestanding and grocery-adjacent liquor stores in Florida and southern Georgia.

‘"All Kinds of Music" describes the various places and circumstances, where young people will hear music.

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the merger of two major media companies: Paramount Global and Skydance Media.

The UAE, billed as a global luxury destination, has received the bulk of Iran's attacks in the region so far.

A new study finds that butterflies probably originated in North or Central America around 100 million years ago.

Toys R Us has reopened just two stores after a painful bankruptcy. This Black Friday will be its first under new ownership.

Tech companies are laying off thousands of workers in a reversal of their hiring boom during the pandemic. Should we worry about another dot-com bust like the one in 2000?