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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to professor Dave Peters, an economist and sociologist with Iowa State University's extension service, about the pain rural Americans are feeling because of inflation.

"The RNC and Republicans on Capitol Hill know they are poised for a great election year and what's the biggest thing that could be a hurdle to that? Donald Trump," says one longtime GOP consultant.

The annual Ballyhoo Mountain Run was this Saturday. Over 20 runners raced up and down the grueling 1,600 foot peak in the blustery wind.

The streaming service had forecast that it would lose 2 million subscribers. The less severe loss, combined with a projection of growth in July to September, helped lift Netflix's battered stock.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke to Morning Edition about global efforts to choke off much of Russia's profit from oil sales and the odds of a recession in the U.S.

A light rail station in a San Francisco suburb had a nasty problem: pigeon poop. The solution: A trained hawk scares the pigeons away. Commuters now treat the hawk and his handler like celebrities.

Voters are more concerned with inflation, according to Democrats in competitive races who are trying to gauge how the hearings will affect November's midterms.

Dr. Meg Autry is raising money to buy and retrofit a vessel that would operate as a reproductive health clinic in federal waters off the Gulf of Mexico, providing services including surgical abortion.

Oil giant Shell will soon open a chemical plant near Pittsburgh that will turn gas from fracking into plastic. The project is creating hundreds of jobs but some residents worry about the air quality

A new book by Jake Friedman documents a bitter strike in 1941 by Disney animators who wanted to unionize. The book is titled, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age.