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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, about what the Biden administration is doing to take on inflation.

Ski industry conglomerate Vail Resorts is pushing back against criticism over staff pay and other operational struggles due to labor issues made worse by the omicron surge.

You can still enter the Tiny Desk Contest for a few more weeks, but here are some entries that have caught the eyes — and ears — of NPR Music already.

Officials in the Arizona city are worried about suffering a massive power grid failure like Texas did a year ago. The city is developing "resilience hubs" with community groups to help when needed.

The Summit of Americas is underway. But with discord over attendance and low expectations of a major breakthrough among those who will be there — how much need is there for such a gathering?

The move, planned for 2024, would make the Big Ten the first college athletics conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The Library of Congress adds 25 new recordings to a national registry every year to be preserved for posterity. The 2022 list includes an album by Alicia Keys and historical broadcasts from WNYC.

Thousands of Etsy sellers closed their online shops for a week starting Monday in an attempt to get the company to address several complaints they have about the site.

Americans use nearly four times the energy researchers say is needed to live a happy, healthy and prosperous life.

Beach House and Mitski and Spoon, oh my! Here are the tracks public radio is spinning over and over this year.

Gas prices could rise even further after hitting an average national price of $5 a gallon for the first time. Here are 4 things to know

Donald Trump returns to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Saturday. Some attendees worry the controversy following him could be a liability in the next presidential campaign.

Inspired by Shakespeare, Mendelssohn captures all the magic and frivolity in the music he wrote for the Bard's otherworldy play.

The town of North Port was hit hard by Hurricane Ian, and then days of river flooding. As the waters start to recede, residents are starting to dry out and take stock of the damage.

The new climate spending package boosts wind and solar power to clean up the country's electricity grid. But these efforts face an ongoing misinformation campaign.

The military faces a recruiting crunch so bad some in Congress are calling for hearings. The Pentagon could be tens of thousands of troops short by next year.

In 1969, an explorer and photographer named Loren McIntyre was dropped into the Amazon rainforest to try and make contact with a tribe called the Mayoruna. Now his story is headed to Broadway. The show uses binaural audio to play sounds of the rainforest in 3-D.

Retired miners are converging on St. Louis Tuesday for a union rally to protest a proposed cut in health benefits. Patriot Coal is in bankruptcy and has asked a federal judge to allow it to shed most of the health coverage for nearly 10,000 retired miners. But most of those miners never worked a day for Patriot.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins declared a state of disaster for Dallas County and requested federal and state assistance. At least one person was killed.

Watch the producer extraordinaire sit down for a rare, in-depth interview with Jason King, host of NPR Music's R&B channel "I"ll Take You There."

The Georgia Guidestones monument has always attracted outlandish theories, but their destruction in a recent bombing has led community members to grapple with the impact of conspiracies.

China's economy stumbled in the second quarter, and economists say the government's "dynamic zero COVID" policy is to blame — hurting confidence and exacerbating other pent up economic challenges.

"I think it's the Devil's armpits outside already," a Manchester resident reported around 1 p.m. local time on Monday. The heat wave in Europe that has resulted in deaths and fueled massive wildfires.

The open senate seat in Pennsylvania has led to one of the closest races in the country. Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz face off Tuesday in their first — and only — debate.

For now, the final recommendations of a special grand jury investigating attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election will largely be kept under wraps, a judge ruled.