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Oil's price slump is hitting some companies hard. But longtime producers, like Texas oilman Tracy Perryman, have been through downturns before — and have learned how to survive lean times.

Running a hospital that scores well on keeping more patients alive or providing extensive charity care doesn't translate into a compensation bump for top executives. Nonprofit hospitals have been under scrutiny for paying high salaries to chief executives while skimping on benefits for their communities.

A new report says Earth just experienced its second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured.

A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," he says. In his new Hulu special, Lonely Flowers, Wood riffs on how isolation has sent society spiraling.

A $38 billion new budget for homeland defense has created a gold rush for high-tech gadgets, reports NPR's Christopher Joyce. But how will intelligence analysts unearth truly vital information within the mountains of new data those gadgets generate? Joyce's report on surveillance technology examines a key area of the war on terrorism -- Wednesday on Morning Edition.

At the StoryCorps booth in Bismarck, N.D., 81–year-old Virginia Fairbrother tells her daughter, Laurel Kaae, a family story about kindness to a stranger during the Great Depression.

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery accused Tom Horne today of breaking campaign finance laws in his successful run for attorney general two years…

The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.

It's the second-largest acquisition for Amazon after purchasing Whole Foods — and its biggest move into entertainment.

In Germany, beer consumption is up as temperatures remain unusually high. This is good and bad news for the beer industry.