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"Mad" Mike Hughes plans to take the rocket built from salvaged metal on a flight across the Mojave Desert on Saturday. His stated mission: to overturn two millennia of scientific understanding.

Some House Republicans are attempting to go around their leaders to pass immigration legislation that would give legal status to DACA recipients.

A new study shows that about half of the entire workforce is now remote. The case for why "this portends a much bigger shift in the economy."

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the recall effort against him an attack on his broader progressive policy agenda, and touted California's progress in emerging from the throes of the pandemic.

As America experiences a coin shortage, Planet Money takes a look at the value of the penny.

Janet Yellen, who was sworn in as Treasury secretary on Tuesday, is urging lawmakers to "act big" in response to the pandemic. But some Republican lawmakers are balking at increased government debt.

At the time Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, a new social science was just taking root: economics. Dickens did not like it. NPR visits a high school performance of the play to understand the economic commentary laced throughout this holiday classic.

A scheduled meeting between President Trump and congressional Democrats blew up Wednesday after Trump walked out of the meeting complaining about Democratic investigations into his administration.

President Donald Trump recently laid into Wheeler's response to the protest. Two Republican senators are calling on the mayor to resign.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Tal Zaks, chief medical officer at Moderna, about its coronavirus vaccine, which is said to be nearly 95% effective, according to clinical trial data.