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The longtime consumer advocate says that now that Apple is a trillion dollar company, it could be doing more for its employees and shareholders.

In past several months, Uniq Ishman has discovered something about herself.“I like to take pictures,” she says. “I like to look at things up close and…

Bill Pullman enjoyed a star turn as the president of the United States in Independence Day. And in an upcoming NBC show, 1600 Penn, he's back in the White House. Pullman talks about his reputation as Hollywood's "everyman," his return to the presidency and his new film, Bringing Up Bobby.

The Shanghai-listed investment firm Yantai Xinchao Industry Co., said in a securities filing over the weekend, it was a purchasing oil lands in the Texas counties of Howard and Borden.

BlackBerry says it's discontinuing the final model that has the traditional clickety keyboard and trackpad — darlings of government workers, businesspeople and early episodes of House of Cards.

When news broke that the musical stage play "Fela!" was scheduled to hit Charlotte (specifically the Belk Theater) February 25 and 26, folks familiar with…

International Paper will close a mill in Courtland, Alabama, that employs more than 1,000 workers. The company blamed a decline in the demand for paper products in the U.S. for the decision. It said the shutdown will be completed in about six months.

Activist investor Carl Icahn has increased his stake in Apple and is pushing the company to replace its own stock buyback plan with a much more ambitious proposal. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Icahn said that, given the size of Apple's cash holdings, its stock buyback should be $150 billion instead of the planned $60 billion.

Correspondents Kelly McEvers and Deborah Amos were cited for "detailed reportage, often from dangerous locations." Radio Diaries was also honored for a profile of teen boxer Claressa Shields on All Things Considered.

Found in our archives: an Internet-themed remake of West Side Story from the dot-com bubble era. It begins with Bill Gates and features the sound of a modem but isn't as obsolete as you might expect.

The Trump administration tweaked its list of Chinese imports subject to a 10% tariff this fall. We found some surprises buried in the thousands of tariff line items.

The one-woman riot who made headlines during the inaugural Women's March On Washington visits the Tiny Desk.

It may be easy to order food online, but it's also more pricey and more calorific compared to traditional ways of ordering, says a new study. It seems we lose our personal inhibitions when we don't have to talk to the seller or see other customers.

Apple made nearly $9 billion in profits in three months — more than Mongolia produced in all of 2011. Investors aren't happy.

2: Sociologist SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT has written a new book about the Black middle class, "I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation" (Addison-Wesley Publishing). In the book she follows the lives of six people who are at midlife and in the black middle class, reflecting on the "necessary losses" for the price of privilege. Her book was written, in part, as a response to the 1957 book "Black Bourgeoisie" by the black sociologist Franklin Frazier. LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT took issue with Frazier's portrait of middle class blacks as materialistic assimilationists, repressed and disconnected from the larger black community. LIGHTFOOT is herself the product of the Black middle class. Her mother is a child psychoanalyst and was the subject of LIGHTFOOT's 1984 book, "Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer." LIGHTFOOT teaches at Harvard and was a recipient of a MacArthur Prize Award.

The health ministry said contamination was reported from multiple vaccination sites. The news raises concern of a supply shortage as Japan tries to accelerate vaccinations amid a surge in cases.

At least four of the nine oil refineries in Ida's path are believed to have paused their operations ahead of the storm. AAA says it's too early to know the full impact until power is restored.

The Memphis singer-songwriter reworks songs from her debut album, Dawn, from a room inside Electric Lady Studios

From Preservation Hall in New Orleans, the rhythmically fueled group broadcasts a powerful performance for a not-so Tiny crowd.

Pub-goers in London cheer Queen Elizabeth II's announcement that Parliament will soon consider allowing pubs to stay open 24 hours. Currently, pubs must close at 11 p.m. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with London pub manager Charlotte Renick. (This story was corrected on air on Nov. 14, 2002: "It's Thursday, the day we read from your letters, and we start with a correction to yesterday's program. I said that Britain's pubs have closed early, ever since World War II. Our thanks to Charles Day in Bozeman, Montana, Marc James Small in Roanoke, Virginia and Peg Willingham in Arlington, Virginia. All pointed out that closing the pubs early was a World War I innovation, part of the Defence of the Realm Act. Mr. Day notes that the law was "affectionately known to the British' by its acronym 'DORA.' The logic of the pub closings was, he writes, 'to keep factory production levels high. Factory workers, particularly the ammunition factory workers, would be home from the pubs at a reasonable hour so that they would show up well rested on the factory floor the next morning.'"