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The stock market shot up Friday after the government released a weaker than expected employment report. How is that possible? For an answer we turn our attention to the Federal Reserve.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ellie Geranmayeh of the European Council on Foreign Relations about how European leaders are reacting to the increasing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

Scientists are using old spy satellite images to measure the effects of climate change. They're finding that glaciers in the Himalayas are melting twice as fast as they were a few decades earlier.

When Ohio’s only two historically black universities merge services this fall, it’s unlikely they will lose their individuality. That’s how University of Pennsylvania professor MaryBeth Gasman sees the new arrangement between Wilberforce and Central State University. As an expert on minority-serving institutions, she’s confident Wilberforce will not lose its identity to the larger school. “If Wilberforce were in stellar financial shape, I wouldn’t think this is a good idea," Gasman says. "But I don’t think maintaining the history and culture will be difficult."

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Tony Horwitz retraces the path of the famed Central Park architect — and discovers a deep cultural divide along the way.

Researchers want new activists to lean on decades of public health research when engaging in work with policymakers and candidates seeking elective office.

It's graduation season, so that means everyone is full of celebratory sheet cake and pithy wisdom for the next generation. As is tradition, ideastream host and Plain Dealer columnist Mike McIntyre crowdsourced a commencement speech by asking all of you to contribute a line or two. Here's what Cleveland came up with. To the Class of 2019: Now what? Fasten your seat belts, really. Don’t be a jerk; no one likes jerks. A smile and a kind word will take you a long way in life.

The evidence is clear: tariffs are a tax on consumers. At best they're "a really inefficient jobs-creation program," according to a leading scholar. Who wins in a trade war? If anyone, only bystanders

Residents, business owners and political leaders in the border city are bracing for President Trump's implementation of a 5% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico that would begin June 10th.

A group of Karen refugees are on their way to fish in the Cuyahoga River near Akron. It’s a pastime they brought with them from their home country, Burma, also known as Myanmar.