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The full weight of the recession has come bearing down on the labor market. Employers shed more than half a million jobs in November. The unemployment rate is now 6.7 percent and economists expect it to go significantly higher. Layoffs are accelerating in just about every industry.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov huddled on the sidelines of Arctic Council meetings in Reykjavik, Iceland.

New data is out on America’s greenhouse gas emissions.

President Biden is passing the torch to Vice President Harris, which changes the narrative of the race against former President Donald Trump.

A spate of wildfires sparked by lightning over the weekend continue to burn out of control across vast expanses of the outer Bay Area on Thursday.

Liz Harris returns with the first single from Grouper's upcoming full-length album, Shade.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the ramifications of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Why are craft beers and fine wines now being sold in aluminum cans? And what's the so-called 'natural wine' movement all about? Should nutrition information be printed on alcoholic beverage labels?

A hot, dry summer has meant the water level on the Rhine River, Western Europe's most important waterway, is at a record low, making it too shallow for many ships to pass.

The changes apply to cases of clergy committing violence or sexual assaults against anyone under their authority, as well as minors. The pope also changed rules about child pornography.