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Barnes & Noble opened this new store in Pikesville, Md., as it began its biggest expansion in years.

How Barnes & Noble turned a page, expanding for the first time in years

After years on the brink, the bookseller is going for a plot twist: Sales are growing and the chain plans to open some 30 new stores. Here's what's changed.

Rents are high and housing vouchers are hard to get. So Philly is giving renters cash

The pilot program chose people on the city's long waitlist for housing vouchers to test how much direct cash payments can help. HUD, the federal housing agency, is interested in the possibility.

House conservatives oppose bipartisan spending agreement, demanding further cuts

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee about the compromise framework for a 2024 spending plan and the response from inside the GOP congressional conference.

Smoke from wildfires raging in Western Canada covered the skies over Michigan and the surrounding Great Lakes in mid-May 2023. On May 18, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this true-color image, the cloud of smoke was so thick that most of the blue waters of Lake Michigan (west), northern Lake Huron (east) and the green lands of northern Michigan were obscured from view.

Wildfire rampage in 2023 injures lungs in the Great Lakes

People are unprepared for smoke from forest fires worsened by intense drought and heat.

Transmission towers in Houston as the storm carrying frigid temperatures approached. The storm tested the reliability of the grid in Texas and across the country, but did not trigger a widespread power crisis.

Intense cold strained, but didn't break, the U.S. electric grid. That was lucky

An intense cold snap caused rolling blackouts in some regions. But a more profound catastrophe didn't unfold, thanks partly to good fortune.

Travelers line up to check in for United Airlines flights at San Francisco International Airport on July 1, 2022 in San Francisco, Calif. This summer is expected to be a record for air travel.

A record number of Americans may fly this summer. Here's everything you need to know

Memorial Day weekend kicks off the busy summer air travel season and this may be the busiest ever. But some worry it could be another summer of delays and cancellations after a "pretty rocky" 2022.

It's not every day that an exuberant comedy about a Mattel doll goes head-to-head with a brooding drama about the father of the atomic bomb, but both <em>Barbie</em> and<em> Oppenheimer</em> deliver. Above, Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Go see 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' in theaters — doubleheader or not is your call

It's not every day that an exuberant comedy about a Mattel doll goes head-to-head with a brooding drama about the father of the atomic bomb, but critic Justin Chang says both films deliver.

The CPSC commissioned new stock photos showing Americans with disabilities using a variety of home safety devices, including portable generators.

People with disabilities aren't often seen in stock photos. The CPSC is changing that

The Consumer Product Safety Commission took photos of people with disabilities using home safety devices like flashlights and smoke alarms — then put them in the public domain for anyone to use.

Stateside: Monday, April 4, 2022

A look at the end of trial proceedings in the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. Michigan’s first licensed cannabis consumption lounges. Plummeting enrollment at Central Michigan University. And, DTE’s perspective on their electricity shutoffs in Detroit.

U.S. strikes prisoner swap deal with Venezuela, plus extradition of 'Fat Leonard'

Venezuela released 10 Americans, 21 Venezuelans — and extradited the man behind a brazen bribery scheme. In exchange, President Biden granted clemency to an an ally of leader Nicolas Maduro.

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