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NPR's Student Podcast Challenge yielded stories about how students around the U.S. are thinking about and responding to climate change. Here are some of their ideas.

Russia's response to Western sanctions designed to punish it for its aggression in Ukraine has been a ban on food imports from the U.S. and others. In Greece, farmers are suffering under Russia's ban.

COVID-19 and tariffs are reconfiguring trade. And companies are reevaluating how and where their products get made.

Factories have added 467,000 jobs in the last 12 months, as production jumped to its highest level since 2008. But manufacturing remains a much smaller slice of the U.S. economy than it used to be.

The focal point of the case is 2009 law enacted by Congress that gives the Food and Drug Administration a mandate to curb the availability of nicotine products for minors.

Businesses are scrambling for ways to minimize the impact of the Trump administration's global tariff policy. NPR's Planet Money team explores tricks and legal loopholes companies are using.

Yesterday, President Clinton granted the FDA authority to regulate tobacco products. NPR's Richard Harris reports on what that will mean.

After attending two theatrical productions -- the musical 1776 and Shakespeare's Henry V -- NPR's Bob Mondello reflects on the parallels with real-life events unfolding in Washington and Iraq.

Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rapoport talks about how major league baseball is looking to export its product.

The bank agreed to refund customers $140 million and pay a $25 million penalty over deceptive credit card marketing.

Johnson & Johnson says internal testing showed some sunscreen samples contained low levels of benzene, which causes cancer with long-term exposure.

One of the Broadway season's most anticipated productions, a revival of The Threepenny Opera, opens with a high-profile cast. Almost 80 years after its Berlin premiere, the Brecht-Weill cabaret musical retains the power to shock and surprise.

Also: Rand Paul plans to come out with a book in 2015; Jesse Ventura was awarded almost $2 million in a defamation suit.

Our panelists predict what will be the must have gadget at next year's Consumer Electronics Show.

You simply have to watch this band to believe it — especially the transfixing accordion.

Ever heard the elektro bağlama? You're about to, in this electronic update on Turkish folk music.

The Timbuktu group bring Tamasheq music from their living room to yours.

Heat Check salutes the 2020 Tiny Desk Contest entries that could hold their own among the worlds of R&B, hip-hop, reggae, pop and more.

R&B balladeer Eric Benet talks about his latest CD Hurricane, a group of songs six years in the making. The former husband to movie star Halle Berry also talks about how he deals with the constant — and sometimes unfriendly — media attention stirred up by his divorce.

Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) reiterates and expands his apology for comments about the nation's racially segregated past. He rejects the idea that he should resign as Senate Majority Leader.