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As the New Year's Eve deadline approaches, the two sides are still trying to negotiate a deal to avert major economic and trade disruptions. Here are some of the top issues at play.

Amid a raging pandemic, Ohio’s agency responsible for looking out for workers’ welfare has started posting full-time temporary jobs with no benefits for…

Forty years after the murder of Sister Dorothy Kazel and three other missionary women in El Salvador, members of the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland continue work to preserve their legacies. Local Catholic institutions are planning virtual events for Wednesday to honor the anniversary of their deaths. Kazel was abducted by five members of the Salvadoran National Guard after a trip to the airport on Dec. 2, 1980, along with her fellow missionary Jean Donovan and Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford. The women were raped and later murdered by the guardsmen.

The federal workforce has often been pilloried by President Trump, but still there are far more applicants than there are federal jobs.

No, Washington, D.C., is not Baghdad, despite now having a Green Zone of its own. But the events of Jan. 6 make the comparison more apt than any of us would wish.

Updated: 5:05 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 A Cleveland Clinic nurse is concerned about changes to vaccine distribution plans in Ohio that no longer prioritize health workers. Now that Cleveland hospitals have begun the next phase of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, some health care workers who did not get the vaccine will have to get in line with the general public – causing concern for those who work closely with COVID-19 patients and can no longer get vaccinated.

Patti Neighmond, an outgoing health policy correspondent who has worked at NPR for 40 years, remembers her favorite story — about a young quadriplegic woman dependent on a ventilator.

Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez will co-headline the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday. The day features a variety of performances from other musical artists.

Updated: 5:36 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 About 500 Ohio schools will start vaccinating teachers and staff next week, Gov. Mike DeWine said during a Thursday press conference. To get into the vaccine queue, schools had to agree to come back at least partially in person by March 1, he said, and all but one public district in the state has signed that agreement.

Los Angeles voters elected a progressive reformer to be county district attorney. George Gascón has moved quickly to upend how the nation's largest local prosecutor's office administers justice.