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Once an icon of American consumer culture, Sears has slipped billions of dollars into debt.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Melissa Hanham of the Middlebury Institute's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies on the what the potential denuclearization of North Korea would look like.

Lizzie Collingham's new book takes 20 exemplary British meals, from plain stewed beef to an elaborate Christmas pudding, and uses them to illustrate the way food and empire are inextricably linked.

Ohio is trying to bring fresh fruit and vegetables to underserved communities. One community in Southeastern Ohio is receiving some help, but it didn't come without a battle from community leaders.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has formally begun the process to repeal the Clean Power Plan and coal states are welcoming the action. But the industry is still declining throughout the country.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Granite City, Ill., steelworkers union president Dan Simmons about the jobs coming back to his city after President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on foreign steel.

As the G7 meeting convenes in Quebec, House Republicans opposed to President Trump's broad tariffs discuss how to move their arguments ahead in the United States.

Obama said he worries that some Democrats are too worried about ideological "purity" and that social media callouts are not activism.

The Environmental Protection Agency would give coal plants more time to close unlined coal ash ponds, and ease rules on wastewater. Opponents say that prolongs the risk of toxic spills.

President Trump announced a "Phase 1" trade deal with China Friday. It avoids a costly new round of tariffs this weekend. What China has agreed to do in return is less certain.

The agreement signed Tuesday in Mexico City revises the old pact with stronger labor and environmental provisions, especially when it comes to Mexican worker rights.

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s election supervisors chastised the nation’s largest voting machine manufacturer on Friday for late software and supply changes…

Farmers hurt by Trump's trade war with China celebrate news of agreement to ease some of the restrictions on commodities.

Geoff Babb — a stroke survivor — found that most wheelchairs couldn't take him where he wanted to go. So, he invented a new way to hike with friends and family: an all-terrain wheelchair.

If Boeing were a normal company, it could be facing questions about bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars over the grounding of the 737 Max. But is it too big to fail?

Attacks on ships last summer and current tensions with Iran put a spotlight on the dangers navigating the Strait of Hormuz, as security consultant Kevin Thompson tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

From South Korean director Bong Joon-ho to Netflix's Martin Scorsese, from men who drive fast to men who are sad clowns, plenty of men cleaned up at this morning's Oscar nominations. Some women, too.

Robert Downey Jr.'s first post-Marvel Universe foray "is not a film. Dolittle is a crime scene in need of forensic analysis. Something happened here. Something terrible. Something inexplicable."

Boeing workers and retirees in Washington state are grieving. The pride they felt from designing and building airliners has been tarnished by the company's 737 Max crisis.

Legendary Broadway songwriter Jerry Herman has died. The author of the hit musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles was 88.