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The United Auto Workers union strike enters its third week, but the history of their fight goes back to the 1930s.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is set to travel to China at a time when U.S. executives and investors are facing increasing uncertainty and risk doing business there.

Some people online believe many of us have dangerous parasites in our gut and need to flush them out with herbal supplements. Here's what doctors say about the trend.

Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.

The chip industry in China is hustling to overcome a Western tech choke hold, even as President Trump appears poised to loosen U.S. chip restrictions.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Republican strategist Liam Donovan, head of the consulting and public affairs firm Targeted Victory, how deep current disagreements in the GOP Congressional caucus are.

Trump is temporarily allowing this fuel to be used on highways, although it's typically just for off-road farm and construction vehicles. Could that lower the price of diesel?

Polls are showing that Democrats have a clear advantage heading into the midterms, but that doesn't tell the whole story. And, today, a mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. is set to close.

Tiny Desk is coming to the public radio airwaves this spring.

Kendall Morgan performs songs from her forthcoming EP, due out early this year, in this World Cafe mini concert.

Conspiracies have taken root and bad actors in American politics have taken advantage.

Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, the grandson of folk all-timer Pete Seeger, has carried on in the family tradition of musical activism, making frequent appearances at the venerable folk festival.

With a stage name that's helped him rise to the top of iTunes libraries everywhere, Bondy writes dark songs about staying a half-step ahead of damnation and doom.

Singer Justin Ringle knows how to use his warm, kind tenor to mask powerful lyrics about dark secrets and bruised souls. In Horse Feathers, he's joined by a marvelous folk-pop string section.

It isn't easy to pin down the music of this folk-rock band, whose wandering spirit has taken it down detours over some strange and even psychedelic roads.

Hear the singer and civil-rights icon in a concert from the Newport Folk Festival.

Hear the Grizzly Bear side project in a full concert, recorded live at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C.

The tenor saxophonist writes compact little themes that sound like they were plucked from the choicest parts of classic solos. Then he gives them to his trio, which swings like nobody's business.

With eclectic instrumentation, hear the lustrous pop-rock band's sunny songs in a live concert.

Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound band starts from funk and dub rhythms; on stage at the CareFusion Newport Folk Festival, they'll be meticulously reconfigured and dished out with zealous improvisation.