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Businesses are beginning to feel the sting of California's electricity crisis. By one estimate, the emergency cost the state 1.7-billion dollars in lost wages, sales and productivity last week alone. But opinion is divided on whether the harm will be long-lasting or merely a temporary annoyance to a resilient and economically powerful state. NPR's Elaine Korry has the story.

Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein about the first major tennis tournament of the year. The Australian Open is underway. Defending women's champion Jennifer Capriati lost in first round and the Williams sisters are easy favorites to win.

Commentator Karen Spears Zacharias is the daughter of an American soldier who was killed in Vietnam. She remembers how her mother held their family together after her father's death. Zacharias is the author of Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam — and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together.

News broke last October that archeologist had discovered a hobbit-like creature on an Indonesian island. Now neurologists have examined the creature's brain and believe it to be a lost relative of modern humans, just a bit smaller. But the debate is far from over.

Africa is littered with the wreckage of international projects that started with pomp and hope, and then died as foreigners lost interest. Now, in Uganda, activists are trying out a model they hope will last: a health care system paid for and run by the people it serves. For All Things Considered, NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

Dreadful and dismal are some of the words used by economists to describe the U.S. unemployment numbers for February, a month where another 651,000 jobs were lost. The same words accurately describe the stock market last week, and this year so far for that matter.

Iceland could become the first "national bankruptcy" of the global financial crisis. The nation's currency has lost nearly half of its value and banks are collapsing under the heavy debt. Tom Braithwaite, a reporter for the Financial Times, talks about Iceland's financial mess.

Poland's right-wing ruling party lost the national elections. But activists do not predict the winners will undertake major changes in LGBTQ and abortion policies.

So far a legislative session on new political maps has seen a broken deal, a threatened walkout and now a positive coronavirus test.

Here's a roundup of how new leadership could affect education.