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Applications for jobless benefits are up again. "What we're seeing now is that lots more people who are unemployed are going to be unemployed for a longer period of time," economist Nick Bunker says.

New transcripts from bodycam footage shows George Floyd telling officers that he cannot breathe and they are killing him numerous times before he died. Floyd's death ignited nationwide protests.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's approach to curbing COVID-19 has slammed the breaks on the economy and caused untold pain for millions Filipinos, with hunger and begging on the rise.

Disaster recovery workers cleaning up after major flooding in Michigan tested positive for the coronavirus. The outbreak shined a light on working conditions in the fast-growing industry.

Teachers, parents and district leaders say the back-to-school season has fogged over with confusion. Will schools reopen? And if so, how?

For summer, we've got a roundup of great new young adult fiction that stretches from Brooklyn to Ireland to fantasy realms of sirens and wolf-people.

California condors are among the biggest flying creatures in North America and are very close to extinction. They were recently spotted in Sequoia National Park for the first time in nearly 50 years.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Brown University economist Emily Oster about the consequences of not opening schools for the fall semester.

Elliott created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom exercise in 1968 to teach students about racism. Today, she says, it's still playing out as the U.S. reckons with racial injustice.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says children are better off in school but that the decision to reopen cannot ignore spiking infection rates.