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Wildfires have burned in six states on the west coast. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Char Miller, Director of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College about the the fires and climate change.

In another record-breaking year, communities are realizing the best way to survive wildfires is learning to live with them.

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

Fires continue to rage in the West Coast. The Senate failed to advance another COVID-19 relief bill. And, Microsoft says the Russian hackers who disrupted the 2016 election are back.

When the pandemic forced high school teacher Cathy Cluck to rethink her teaching strategy, she went on a "Great American History Road Trip," holding virtual lessons along the way.

The pandemic has changed how people are shopping in ways that are not reflected in official measurements like the Consumer Price Index, due out Friday morning. Lived inflation is probably even higher.

We’ll celebrate Joe Perry’s 70th birthday (!?!), head to Brazil with Gilberto Gil and Shirley Scott, get fabulous with Queen and Sylvester, hear a Boss cover from Alison Mosshart, gaze at shoes with My Bloody Valentine, get exotic with Brian Jones, get soulful with Charles Bradley, get weird with Tom Waits, and get a whole lot of other things with a whole lot of other folks, as well.

Federal authorities arrested the police chief and city personnel director of Bridgeport, Conn., on Thursday, alleging the two rigged the examination process that led to the chief's hiring in 2018.

Fires are destroying huge swaths of forests and causing mass evacuations throughout Oregon and California. NPR discusses the latest.

The league didn't have to make hard decisions like other major sports leagues but it's been watching and has mimicked them with a hefty set of health and safety protocols for play during the pandemic.