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Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried has spoken in support of the program. She says it’s an attempt to right the wrongs of the past.

The system could briefly become Tropical Storm Bill before dissipating in the Atlantic.

Lucas Wall says he has generalized anxiety disorder and wearing a mask causes him to feel like he’s having a panic attack. He claims the flight mask mandate is unconstitutional.

This year, China pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2060. It has invested heavily in solar, wind and nuclear energy. Still, coal-fired heavy industry made up 37% of its economic activity last year.

The U.S. trade deficit is hitting record highs — and it's fueled by a surge in demand for imports, mostly from East Asia. On both land and at sea, the shipping industry is struggling to keep up.

The Israeli prime minister leaves office with a legacy that includes economic prosperity, a growing partisan divide in the U.S. over support for Israel and the unresolved conflict with Palestinians.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with author Julian Rubinstein about his book The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood.

Demonstrators were gathered to protest the June 3 shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr., a Black man, by U.S. marshals in Minneapolis when a man plowed into a crowd Sunday night.

A global shortage of semiconductor chips has impacted the manufacturing of cars, electronics and appliances.

President Biden is in Brussels for the NATO summit. The 30 member nations will meet to set the tone for the alliance. This after Biden renewed the U.S. commitment to the G-7.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, ahead of a meeting of the Federal Reserve Board to discuss the economic recovery.

Ralph's Tavern briefly accepted Monopoly money in payment for the cover charge and food. The tavern is campaigning for a spot on a planned version of the Monopoly game that is Worchester-themed.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava about the partial building collapse in Surfside, and her meeting with the president about the increase in violent crimes.

As COVID-19 surges, so does demand for oxygen. And oxygen manufacturing plants simply can't keep up. That's bad news not only for severely ill patients but others in need, including newborns.

Starting July 1, athletes will be able to hire agents and will be required to disclose to the universities any contracts for compensation.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ronald Wright, a criminal justice expert and law professor at Wake Forest University, about why so many cities across the U.S. are experiencing a surge in violent crime.

Some of the building's residents need specific items: officials are working to provide displaced families with bassinets, pack n' plays, strollers and gift cards.

The partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., killed at least four people and left another 159 unaccounted for.

Infrastructure spending is considered one of the few issues on which the two parties can agree, but there are still differences that seem to reflect the nation's broader partisan and cultural divide.

We are slowly learning about the people who were in the Florida condominium building when it partially collapsed Thursday morning.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks structural engineer and University of Central Florida professor Necati Catbas about the building collapse in Surfside, Fla.

NASA is crediting volunteers and amateurs with advancing our knowledge of the universe through online data investigations, helping the agency identify two new planets far beyond our solar system.

Crews continue to work on the building collapse in the town of Surfside, Fla.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Ahmad Dallal, about becoming American University in Cairo's first Arab president.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has detained or jailed his political opponents and is now arresting journalists. Some of his neighbors are warning of a return to dictatorship.