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Three doctors present their proposal to get vaccines to everyone in the world. "We already have the resources, knowledge and systems," they write. Global leaders just have to make it happen.

The luxury watch market was a sleepy, shrinking industry until it got caught up in a tidal wave of market forces.

Excerpt: Slow Death by Rubber Duck

The billionaire philanthropist tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep his new TerraPower nuclear plant is safer than traditional builds. He's putting his own money behind the project.

The Kitchen Sisters production team takes a look into the long held Scottish tradition of honesty boxes - where you leave the money in the box and take what you need.

Marijuana legalization was expected to bring the industry out of the shadows. But in some states, the black market is alive and well.

A Charlotte company wants to redevelop the 130-year-old Linden Cotton Mill in downtown Davidson as offices, shops and maybe a brewery or restaurant. But the factory also once made asbestos products, and the five-acre site is contaminated. In Part 3 of WFAE's series Asbestos Town, environmental reporter David Boraks looks at the status of the redevelopment and concern in the historically African American neighborhood around it.

Yes, higher crude oil prices mean a multibillion-dollar cash infusion to the oil industry. But volatility is bad for business, and sustained high prices come with very serious drawbacks.

The CARES Act provides funds to pay medical bills for uninsured COVID-19 patients. But a young man's death in Nashville, Tenn., shows people often don't know about the program until it's too late.

Rachel Martin speaks with former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, who delivered the official Democratic response to President Trump's address to Congress. NPR's Scott Detrow also has analysis.

She is a wildly popular singer, AIDS activist and major general in the Chinese army. Now, Peng Liyuan is slated to add another title: first lady of China. Peng's husband, Xi Jinping, is expected to become the country's president next year. Military garb has replaced her fabulous costumes as China's image-makers ensure she doesn't overshadow Xi.

Federal housing officials are closing two large public housing projects in Cairo, Ill., renewing concerns that the predominantly African-American town will be wiped off the map altogether.

In a region ravaged by job loss and addiction, a musical tradition provides a lifeline for people in recovery.

The idea of tuition-free college isn't a new concept for some schools. Two colleges in Kentucky have been making it work for years.

Putting on a wedding in New York City can be financial suicide. But one young couple, profiled in Fast Company, say they priced their upcoming celebration at just $10,000 by using online startups.

Say what you will about the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board, but it’s hard to argue they’re lazy or timid. They’ve committed to a schedule of reviewing data on academic goals, they're deep in superintendent candidate interviews and they’re trying to persuade county commissioners and voters to approve a record-smashing total for school bonds.

The $600 weekly pandemic unemployment payments have single-handedly changed the economic equation in America as people earn more staying home than they did in the jobs they lost.

The attendees included cancer survivors and their families, a veteran and his caregivers, a health care professional from a Navajo reservation, a Holocaust survivor and more.

Coal companies shed billions in obligations to workers and the environment. They went on to riches through bankruptcy and asset transfers.

People in poverty-stricken Clay County worry about what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin's and President-elect Trump's ambitions to overhaul Medicaid proceed.