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College towns depend on business from the students that attend the school. In places like Ann Arbor, Mich., residents are nervous about returning students bringing the coronavirus with them.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Michelle Singletary — personal finance columnist for The Washington Post — about the widespread risk of evictions due to job loss amid the pandemic.

As it has long done with the Tibetan and Uighur languages, Beijing is reducing instruction in Mongolian in favor of Mandarin Chinese in ethnic Mongolian areas of the country.

The pandemic has put some workplace trends into overdrive. Some employers are converting full-time jobs into freelance positions. In some white-collar occupations, freelancing may become the norm.

Michael Caputo, one of the top officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, has come under fire for controversial remarks he made during a Facebook Live appearance on Sunday.

Hurricane Sally is crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast. It's been dumping rain across Florida for days. Now Alabama and Mississippi are feeling its effects.

Store owner Sandy Jackson of Cave Junction, Ore., talks about the Slater Fire on the border with California. She says she and her neighbors are prepared to flee at a moment's notice.

Median household income jumped to $68,700 in 2019, the highest since record-keeping began in 1967. Many of those gains have likely been erased this year, as the pandemic left tens of millions jobless.

The magazine given out at theaters isn't just a program, it's a cherished souvenir. The publication has doubled down on its digital offerings, and to almost everyone's surprise, it's doing quite well.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Fairrah Newsome Jackson, an Atlanta mom juggling her job with school for one of her daughters, for our series examining how COVID-19 is changing education.