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With U.S. stock prices already seeing their worst three-day opening for a year since 2008, China's trading day lasted less than 30 minutes Thursday.

Economists had anticipated 160,000 new jobs, even factoring in a large strike by Verizon employees. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate declined because of people dropping out of the workforce.

A rocket-propelled grenade is fired at a U.S. Army ambulance south of Baghdad, killing a U.S. soldier traveling inside. The attack is one of at least four launched against U.S. targets Thursday, killing two Iraqi bystanders and wounding at least a dozen others. NPR's Tom Bullock reports.

The Butner federal prison complex in North Carolina is where a quarter of federal inmate deaths occur. It includes a medical facility but inmates aren't getting needed care, there or at other prisons.

The U.S. has reported more than 140,000 total coronavirus deaths. Over the weekend, leaders around the world tightened restrictions in response to increases in cases.

U.S. retail sales fell a record 16.4 percent in April, nearly double the previous record drop of 8.3 percent set in March.Department stores and other…

This episode originally aired on June 6, 2020.U.S. retail sales fell a record 16.4 percent in April, nearly double the previous record drop of 8.3 percent…

The U.S. Supreme Court made two high-profile decisions last week to close out their 2018-2019 session.The nation’s high court decided in a 5-4 vote that…

Ohio Gov. DeWine last week threatened to cut off COVID-19 vaccines to teachers and staff if schools renege on a pledge to return to in-person learning by…

U.S. military officials are investigating the grenade attack at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait that killed one U.S. soldier and wounded more than a dozen. An American soldier is being held as a suspect. Hear NPR's Lynne Neary and Time magazine correspondent Jim Lacey.