How legacy airlines beat Spirit’s Dollar-General model

Spirit Airlines is having trouble Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images About a month ago, Aran Darling booked a cheap red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York for a work event. Darling and his significant other, Izzy de la Meme, own a small business named Froot Stand. They buy avocados

Eagle Nest Cams Hook Online Communities

One of the Decorah, Iowa, bald eagles feeds its eaglets. The bald eagle livestreams allow viewers to watch the eagles from anywhere. Raptor Resource Project hide caption toggle caption Raptor Resource Project Sometimes, Gloria Gajownik wishes people acted more like bald eagles. Bald eagle families don't yell at each other (except for the occasional squawk)

Supreme Court fight over fish oil could raise drug costs

sinceLF/iStockphoto/Getty Images The United States pays undeniably high prices for brand-name drugs. But when it comes to generics — the cheaper copycat medicines that now fill nine out of every 10 prescriptions in America — the country gets a very good deal. Americans pay less, on average, for generic medications than people in any other

Republican Lawmaker Tried to Insert Holocaust Deniers in Schools

AFP via Getty Images and U.S. National Archives/Collage by Emily Bogle This January, in a drab committee room of the New Hampshire state legislature, a Republican state lawmaker teamed up with a German Holocaust denier to propose that the state's public schools incorporate a conspiracy theory when developing their lesson plans: namely, that the Nazis'

Ukraine targets Druzhba pipeline to sever Russian oil, influence in EU

To many Ukrainians and Europeans, the European Union’s unlocking of a 90bn-euro ($105bn) loan to Ukraine on April 23 was a bittersweet victory because it came with a multibillion-dollar gift to Russia. EU member Hungary agreed to lift a veto on the loan after Ukraine mended the Druzhba pipeline, which traverses its territory and supplies

U.S. Deportees Left in Limbo in DRC

A view of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—a sprawling urban giant where over 15 million people live. Schalk Van Zuydam/AP hide caption toggle caption Schalk Van Zuydam/AP KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo—None of them imagined they would end up in Kinshasa. On April 17, the U.S. government deported 15 people

The MAHA movement is mad about glyphosate and Trump’s EPA

In a sign of the simmering discontent within the Make America Healthy Again coalition, some of its most visible figures rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, lobbing criticism at the Trump administration for siding with a pesticide-maker. Inside, the justices were hearing arguments in a highly-anticipated case involving the glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup. "You

Millions of U.S. Homes Are Uninsured — NPR Wants Your Story

This aerial view shows residential lots cleared after homes were destroyed in the January 2025 Eaton Fire beside homes that are still standing in Altadena, Calif. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images/AFP Even as homeowners face more extreme weather like recent wildfires, floods and tornadoes, millions of

Lawsuits accuse State Farm of secretly working to cut insurance payouts

A support scientist looks at radar on his phone while tracking a supercell thunderstorm in Oklahoma. Hail damage contributed to $51 billion in insured losses last year from severe storms, according to the Insurance Information Institute, an industry-backed think tank. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images The storm swept into Tulsa

Title: Millions risk losing legal status under Trump pause

The U.S. travel ban against 39 countries has thrown thousands of people into legal limbo, as the Trump administration has paused reviewing visa, green card, work permit, and citizenship applications. Nicole Xu for NPR hide caption toggle caption Nicole Xu for NPR The lives of hundreds of thousands of people were thrown into limbo after
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