Search results for

This is the story of how the invention of the 747 and some bad French phone lines led to the creation of the modern credit card.

The justification used by the Trump administration for its steel and aluminum tariffs is riskier for the global trading system than the tariffs themselves.

Our guest, Tyler Cowen, has insights into a ridiculously wide range of subjects. Our conversation touches everything from Afrofuturist flicks to the mouth-numbing qualities of the Sichuan peppercorn.

Imagine being able to work fewer hours during a difficult time in your life, without having to quit your job or interrupt your career. In Germany, for many workers, that's now a reality.

The utility told Dana McCool that she may have a leak but a plumber didn't find one. To protest, she went to the Deltona Water Department and paid her balance in pennies.

After the star of The Bachelor broke up with the season's winner, who is a native of Minnesota, a Minnesota lawmaker wrote a bill banning him from the state.

Facebook is under intense pressure after it admitted that analytics firm Cambridge Analytica got access to millions of users' personal data. NPR wants to know how users are feeling.

Lonnie Swartz is on trial for murder more than five years after he shot through a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, killing a teenager on the other side.

The country's biggest owner of local television stations is under fire for making its news anchors read a scripted promo echoing conservative rhetoric about media bias.

What happens when you put someone who wants to close an agency, in charge of that agency? Today on the show, we find out.