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Workforce participation for moms in the U.S. has been dropping for most of this year, and the reasons are more complicated than return-to-office mandates. The team from "The Indicator" explains why.

The stock market is booming despite some worrying signals on jobs and new reports showing consumer prices rising. But investors are betting the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week.

This is the year that a lot of the money from Biden's 2021 infrastructure law starts flowing to states and local governments. Mitch Landrieu is tasked with implementing and promoting the effort.

Mifepristone has been FDA-approved for abortion since 2000 and has been used by millions of people.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has expressed its intention to crack down on those cryptocurrencies which they contend are securities – which include most of them; and, while the best-known cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin, Ethereum – stand strong, others have not been so stable, or even collapsed, such as the case with three arrows capital.Is it time ?

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ben Raanan, whose sister and stepmother had been taken hostage by Hamas in Israel earlier this month and freed Friday.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with singer-songwriter Maddie Zahm about her new album, Now That I've Been Honest, and her whirlwind couple of years since going viral for the song "Fat Funny Friend."

The Biden administration is moving ahead with what could be the largest national marine sanctuary in the continental U.S. A Native American tribe is hoping to be partners in managing it.

With high inflation and rising expenses, small businesses hope to lure shoppers with food, holidays cheer, instead of deep discounts.

NPR'S Ailsa Chang talks to author Curtis Chin about his new memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.

We heard from Kentuckians – voters, officeholders, and researchers – about how Kentucky’s divided government is working for them and what they want the rest of the country to know about their state.

Some cities and states have explicitly made public camping illegal. Voters in Austin, Texas, approved a camping ban in 2021.