Search results for

Johnson & Johnson is entangled in lawsuits regarding its talcum-based products being linked to ovarian cancer. To save itself from future suits, the company is betting big on a tricky legal maneuver.

With his other legislative priorities stalled, President Biden is turning to a bill that would provide incentives for semiconductor plants, like the one Intel announced for Ohio on Friday.

Non-alcoholic beer sales are booming as people embrace Dry January or just cut back on their drinking. Craft brewers are also getting into the action.

Invasive green crabs are destroying marine ecosystems in the United States. A New Hampshire distillery is making crab-flavored whiskey to take them on.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions statewide. California's air quality goals have implications for industry and auto makers because they often lead to a ripple effect for laws across the country.

Goldman Environmental Prize winner Silas Siakor's reports on illegal logging in Liberia helped persuade the U.N. Security Council to ban Liberian timber exports. That stripped warlords of key income and led to political change. Siakor looks back... and forward.

Target department stores bought every advertisement in The New Yorker magazine this week. Target did this before, when it bought all the advertising space in an issue of People magazine. Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Bryan Curtis, who examines what the buy-up says about Target's prime audience.

This year, instead of crops, 34 million acres of American farmland will produce tall grass, pheasants and ducks. That's thanks to the CRP, a USDA program to protect soil, streams and wildlife habitat on farms that accounts for about 8 percent of all farm subsidies in 2005.

Many of the jobs are in cities and aimed at scientists and data engineers. Some can even be filled by people who have gone through a technical training program without a bachelor's degree.

An innovative educational program in the D.C. jail asks incarcerated people how to stop gun violence. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 8, 2022.)

The pop singer's recent live shows reveal a performer who's finally hitting her stride. She joins Alt.Latino to talk about her musical influences and her latest album, My Garden.

A life in slow motion from David Gray; solo acoustic work by Richard Thompson; face to face with guitarist Adrian Belew; old world folk by Baltimore's Madagascar and more.

New artists like Iron and Wine; a self-professed has-been with little music ability (William Shatner); old-school artists like Brian Wilson and favorites like Wilco and Interpol ... you picked quite a list. Thanks to all participants and to all the musicians that made 2004 a great year for new music.

National Safety Shelters sells safety pods that can fit a classroom of students inside to protect them from active shooters or extreme weather.

An influential group of New Yorkers wants the city to implement congestion pricing -- where drivers pay a premium to drive in the most congested parts of the city and during peak travel times. They say it's working in London. But so far, the mayor isn't sold on the idea.

It's a move seen as retaliation by the Kremlin for western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The energy crisis is not limited to Europe as other countries are also feeling the impact.

You can never be too thin seems to be the mantra at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ultra-thin laptops and slender next-generation TVs are being showcased along with thousands of other gadgets and gizmos. The show is so massive that if you walked from booth to booth you would travel more than 15 miles.

A case pitted most of the pork producers in the U.S. against a California law enacted by referendum by lopsided margins.

The bill would support domestic manufacturing of semiconductor chips that power the nation's smartphones, cars, computers and medical equipment.

Contrasting symphonies by the brilliant but troubled Dmitri Shostakovich get deluxe treatments from conductor Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony.