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One Man’s Desperate Pursuit of Unemployment Benefits At least seven million Californians have lost their jobs since the pandemic began earlier this year. It took Antonio Rael an estimated 5,600 calls before he could get an Employment Development Department worker on the phone to re-certify his claim. Reporter: Mary Franklin Harvin, KQED Basic Questions Are … Continue reading One Man’s Desperate Pursuit of Unemployment Benefits →

Wine Industry Limps Along With Tasting Rooms Closed A report out this week from Sonoma State University estimates California wine businesses lost more than $4 billion dollars since the start of the coronavirus shutdown. More than 40,000 people, directly or indirectly involved in making, distributing and serving wine, could lose their jobs. We’re talking everyone … Continue reading Wine Industry Limps Along With Tasting Rooms Closed →

In part two of our story, Mom's Good Move, Peg Collison and her family sift through the contents of the house she has lived in for almost thirty years. Peg has decided to move to a retirement community and, as she says, she needs to "downsize" her belongings. In the process, she uncovers long lost tapes, letters and other treasures. The adult children come to help mom. They have to figure out who gets what and why. Collison's son Dan produced this story, for NPR's Changing Face of America series. Part one aired yesterday.

For 90 years, a Boston newspaper ran a "missing friends" column with advertisements that helped newly arrived Irish immigrants find lost friends and relatives. On this St. Patrick's Day, Boston College is unveiling a searchable online database of more than 30,000 records of those ads.

Up until recently, the likely composers of the great American symphony looked remarkably similar: all white, overwhelmingly male. But recent developments have opened up the doors to composers who were once lost to history.

The painting, entitled Ecce Homo, was attributed to a different artist when it went to auction in 2021, but the Prado museum says it has now been verified as a lost work of the Italian master.

Two December storms are leading to calendar changes in Oregon school districts.

One way or another, someone's going to lose on election night. And there's a graceful way to concede defeat, as Adlai Stevenson showed in 1952, and Al Gore did in the disputed 2000 election.

The first-term congressman lost to challenger Bob Good, who had called Riggleman "out of step with the base of the party" on marriage, immigration and other issues.

Major stock indexes bounce back a day after the Dow lost 1,861 points amid spikes in new cases in states that had reopened their economies.