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Tyler Childers will release a new album, <em>Rustin' in the Rain, </em>on Sept. 8. The video for the record's first single, "In Your Love," depicts a love story between two miners. Childers' friend and collaborator, the writer Silas House, says that he wanted to show that stories like this "are part of the story of Appalachia, too. These are human stories, not political stories."

Tyler Childers is back, and taking chances

The grassroots country star, whose fan base crosses lines of identity and politics, is releasing a song called "In Your Love," from a new album. Its video tells a queer, Appalachian love story.

A view of an election poster for the upcoming parliamentary election with the face of Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the far left opposition party, in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, June 9, 2022.

France holds parliamentary election in vital test for Macron

French voters are choosing lawmakers in a parliamentary election Sunday as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to secure his majority while under growing threat from a leftist coalition.

In the first Biden administration rule aimed at combating climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.

EPA Moves To Sharply Limit Potent Gases Used In Refrigerators And Air Conditioners

The new rule is intended to decrease the use of greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons by 85% over the next 15 years. The gases that are thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Lincoln Alexander, a man wearing glasses, speaks at podium

Detroit high school student explores family ties to Lincoln Alexander, first Black Canadian member of Parliament

Renaissance High's Brooke White wants you to know more about Lincoln Alexander, who was the first Black Canadian member of Parliament in the House of Commons, the first Black federal Cabinet Minister, and the first Black Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board.

Music stage with signs reading "Techno comes from Detroit"

Mornings in Michigan: Dancing into the wee hours with techno icon Carl Craig

Detroit's Movement Electronic Music festival normally ends by midnight, but there’s an overnight dance scene that makes it a 24-hour affair. As a part of our "Mornings in Michigan" series, Michigan Radio’s Erin Allen takes us into the wee hours of the weekend with a Detroit techno icon.

Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall play a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife trying to redeem their legacy in the wake of a public scandal in<em> Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.</em>

'Honk for Jesus' is an uneven but entertaining saga about scandal and redemption

Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall play a Southern Baptist pastor and his wife trying to redeem their legacy in the wake of a public scandal in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

A person shovels out homes and cars near the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston, Mas., on January 30. Blinding snow whipped up by powerful winds pummeled the eastern United States into the early hours of January 30, as one of the strongest winter storms in years triggered transport chaos and power outages across a region of some 70 million people.

Power has returned to some homes walloped by the weekend 'bomb cyclone'

Record snow in parts of the Northeast left thousands without power.

Just over 10,000 lead pipes have been replaced in Flint. The city has a September 2022 deadline to finish identifying and replacing its remaining lead service lines.

Michigan's 20th century water systems too big for its shrinking city populations

Cities around the Great Lakes region struggle with the cost of water maintenance and operation as their populations decline.

Kent Lake is part of the Huron River system; the state advised no contact with the water pending the results of testing for hexavalent chromium, a carcinogenic chemical

State lifts Huron River no-contact recommendation after tests show little hexavalent chromium

The Michigan health department lifted its do-not-contact recommendation Friday evening after testing by environmental investigators found less than 20 pounds of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium likely made its way into Norton Creek from an accidental discharge by Tribar Technologies in Wixom. The state's initial estimate was more than 4,000 pounds.

Antwon McGhee is one of about 500 Warrior Met Coal miners in Brookwood, Ala., who have been on strike for 20 months.

Alabama coal miners begin their 20th month on strike

The miners have survived more than 600 days on the picket line, thanks to widespread support and anger at their employer, Warrior Met Coal. Even now, neither side seems ready to budge.

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