The love-hate tug-of-war with California
A look at Americans rooting for California’s failure.
This Tennessee Christmas tree farm offers a unique “choose-and-cut” experience
A Christmas tree farm in the Smoky Mountains tries to bring “joy to the world” each season.
Since 1879, this Austin, Texas choir aims to preserve their German heritage through song
A German-language Christmas choir in Austin, Texas, has been in operation since 1879. NPR joins the choir as they rehearse for their annual Christmas concert.
Soft medium, hard truths – National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter
A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that’s marginalized Indigenous artists.
After nearly 50 years apart, a divorced couple comes back together to try marriage again
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, residents Fay and Bob Wenrich divorced in 1975. Now, at ages 89 and 94, and after nearly half a century apart, they’ve re-married.
Luigi Mangione retains high-profile former prosecutor as defense lawyer
Karen Friedman Agnifilo was second-in-command at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. There, she prosecuted violent crime cases, including those that had “a mental health component.”
Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 100
Bob Fernandez was a 17-year-old sailor on board the USS Curtiss during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that propelled the U.S. into World War II.
Supreme Court to consider whether Catholic group is exempt from religious taxes
At issue is whether the charity Catholic Charities is qualified to be exempt from state unemployment taxes as a religious institution.
A program in D.C. raised the wages of child care workers. We check back 3 years later
Three years ago, councilmembers in Washington, D.C., approved a tax hike on the wealthy as a way to raise the wages of child care workers. It’s led to big gains for the city’s child care workforce.
Paula Abdul settles suit alleging sexual assault by ‘Idol’ producer Nigel Lythgoe
Paula Abdul and former American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he sexually assaulted her in the early 2000s when she was a judge on the show.
McKinsey & Company to pay $650 million for role in opioid crisis
The powerful consulting firm McKinsey will “accept responsibility” and pay $650 million for helping to fuel the opioid crisis, but executives will once again dodge prosecution.
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