In nearly half of metro areas, buyers must make more than $100,000 to afford a median-priced home, a Harvard University report finds. And home prices this year reached a new all-time high. (Image credit: Daniel Wood/NPR) Read More
The group Just Stop Oil took credit for the Wednesday afternoon action, which they said was a call on the United Kingdom to stop the use of fossil fuels by 2030. (Image credit: Just Stop Oil/AP) Read More
Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agencyRead More
Scientists studying a family plagued by early Alzheimer’s found some carry a genetic oddity that delays their symptomsRead More
As a part of NPR’s year-long series on global elections, we look at how U.S. allies and partners view the two presidential candidates ahead of next week’s debate. Read More
Opal Lee, an activist for the Juneteenth holiday, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Lee about the holiday she worked hard to solidify. Read More
A hospital in New Jersey is among several that have moved nurse managers, who oversee scores of bedside nurses on a unit, to a four-day work week to address burnout and high turnover. Read More
The legislation, signed into law Wednesday by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, makes Louisiana the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. (Image credit: Carolyn Kaster) Read More
NPR’s Rob Schmitz talks with Paul Tenorio, soccer writer with The Athletic, about the Copa America soccer tournament, in which the best teams from North and South America will compete in U.S. cities. Read More
Philadelphia has hired a service to clean up after violent shootings outdoors. The idea is to minimize community trauma when neighbors do the cleaning themselves or firefighters hose away the blood. Read More