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Officials at Amazon announced on Tuesday that the company is raising wages to $15 an hour starting Nov. 1 for some 250,000 regular workers and 100,000 seasonal workers.

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: When Science Fairs Attack! Millennial Love and Balls and Yikes!

Joan Jett shredded her way through rock and roll's glass ceiling from the 1970s on. Jett and longtime producer Kenny Laguna talk about leaving a rock legacy and the new documentary Bad Reputation.

Michael Myers is back and, so is Laurie Strode. Jamie Lee Curtis was 19 when she starred in the original Halloween. This sequel ignores the others to focus on what has happened to Laurie since 1978.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at chicken processing plants in Mississippi last week raised an old debate: Who will do these jobs if not immigrant workers?

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Steven Davis, earth system scientist with the University of California-Irvine about why global carbon emissions continue to rise, despite efforts and pledges to cut them.

The new changes come after leaders agreed to narrow the income eligibility for those getting the next round of stimulus checks, as some moderate Democrats wanted. GOP amendments are expected to fail.

By July, India aims to vaccinate 300 million of its 1.4 billion people. But with COVID-19 infections already declining, some Indians don't see the need — and clinics have more doses than recipients.

The teachers union said "there is no agreement yet" but a framework its members must review. The city said it's planning for pre-K and special education programs to resume in person this week.

California moved from a risk-based to an age-based system for the COVID-19 vaccine in January. People with disabilities say that pivot cast them aside and they should have been prioritized.