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100 small businesses in Akron are getting intensive training as part of eBay's "Retail Revival" program. It's designed to give brick-and-mortars a global marketplace and compete with Amazon.

Growing up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood Lucy Biederman had never been inside a Walmart However, that didn’t stop her from having an opinion about the store or its customers. “I thought, ‘Oh Walmart’-it’s such a fraught, weighted word,” Biederman said. That opinion changed when Biederman, now a lecturer at Case Western Reserve University, moved to the rural south where Walmart was the only nearby store.

Researchers and analysts in the United Kingdom say Russia used thousands of Twitter accounts to try to divide British society before and after the vote on whether the U.K. should leave the European Union. They say Russian accounts sent out tens of thousands of tweets both for and against the U.K. staying in the E.U.

Alabama's attorney general ruled that a fatal police shooting at a Birmingham-area mall was justified. Police shot and killed a man they incorrectly believed was responsible for a shooting.

The tracks Bob Boilen shares on this week's All Songs Consideredall have a cinematic quality, from a new Thom Yorke cut for the film Motherless Brooklyn,to Ride's best new album in 20 years.

It could've been the E.U.'s finest hour, but instead, critics say the bloc's vaccine rollout is a bungled mess that included a diplomatic row with Ireland and the U.K.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the song "Farrah Fawcett Hair" and the shows Blue Eye Samurai and Ghosts UK.

Here are five reasons to head to your local cineplex before Memorial Day, from a Steven Soderbergh spy thriller, to 17 Robert Pattinsons in a sci-fi cloning epic from the director of Parasite.

A Columbus Police officer is recovering after being shot last night in the Linden neighborhood.

The songs we love from the first half of the year span a wide emotional and musical range, from wild percussive romps to raw pleas for empathy to Beyoncé's command to leave it all on the dance floor.