Deep Dive: Are overextended corporate board members costing investors money?
Credit Suisse says serving on just one board is the magic number for stock-market performance, but are its findings just a coincidence rather than cause and effect?
Credit Suisse says serving on just one board is the magic number for stock-market performance, but are its findings just a coincidence rather than cause and effect?
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President Barack Obama called Friday for the overturning of a North Carolina law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms conforming to the sex on their birth certificates and restricts protections for LGBT people. Obama criticized the state law and ...
Why the world's poorest people are some of the most effective — and vulnerable — environmental activists.
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is sending mixed signals on whether he will persist in his pointed critique of Hillary Clinton's record as some Democrats urge the party to coalesce around the former secretary of state.
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is sending mixed signals on whether he will persist in his pointed critique of Hillary Clinton's record as some Democrats urge the party to coalesce around the former secretary of state.
(AP) — Bernie Sanders is sending mixed signals on whether he will persist in his pointed critique of Hillary Clinton's record as some Democrats urge the party to coalesce around the former secretary of state. Sanders largely gave her a pass Friday, except by implication, as he denounced the thinking behind the Iraq war, which she supported, and warned of the risks of pushing regime change, as he addressed and took questions from a crowd of some 2,000 in a gym, with hundreds more in an overflow room. Читать дальше...
HBO's hit kicks off its sixth season this weekend, but the show has now outpaced the original books, and the channel isn't making advance episodes available. So, is Jon Snow alive? We have no idea!
By executive action, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, moved to expand voting rights to more than 200,000 ex-offenders in the state. Republicans have criticized the decision because of its election year timing. But McAuliffe tells NPR's Kelly McEvers that it was a "moral issue."
President Obama held a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London on Friday. He urged the United Kingdom not to sever ties with the European Union ahead of a crucial vote in two months.
The autopsy on the performer Prince is underway, though results may not be known for days or weeks. Meanwhile, law enforcement is talking about the events Thursday that led them to his compound where they discovered him.
In January, two young men killed themselves in one Greenland town. The country has the world's highest known suicide rate, and people worried these suicides would become a cluster. So they mobilized to prevent more deaths.
By settling class action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts, Uber will be able to continue to categorize drivers in those states as independent contractors. The company will pay as much as $100 million to about 385,000 drivers in those cases. Drivers in California react to the settlement and explain what it may mean for them — and for their customers.
Shoemaker New Balance is criticizing the Obama administration over the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The company is trying to make a running shoe with 100 percent American parts and feel the trade deal will doom shoes made in the U.S.
Grizzly bears in Yellowstone may soon lose protection from the federal government. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed taking the bears off the endangered species list, saying the population has recovered to a self-sustaining number. Opponents dispute that, in part because they say federal biologists aren't sufficiently accounting for climate change threatening their food sources.
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to our regular political commentators E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss the results of the New York primaries and the decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
(CNN Español) — La cifra oficial de personas muertas en Ecuador tras el terremoto del sábado en la costa es de 602 víctimas mortales, según el último informe de la Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgos. 12.492 personas heridas han sido atendidas. Hay 26.091 personas albergadas Hasta el momento 130 personas permanecen desaparecidas. 113 personas han sido rescatadas con vida Según el boletín oficial, hay 6.998 edificaciones destruidas, otras 2740 afectadas y más 281 ...
(CNN) — Three children — ages 4 days, 6 months and 3 years — survived the fatal shootings of eight people in rural southern Ohio, Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader said at a press conference Friday. All victims were shot in the head, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said.
The Meddler is a new comedy starring Susan Sarandon about mom who's just a bit much — just in time for Mother's Day.
Republican National Convention delegates have been talking about nominating rules and the delegate counts. NPR explores what we've learned about what the party's nominating convention will look like.
Uzbekistan's Oksana Chusovitina became the first female gymnast to qualify for her seventh Olympics.
On the surface, Chris Stapleton and Prince couldn't have less in common. But the R&B-influenced country singer says the late music visionary was an inspiration, both as a singer and a fellow guitar player. "I don't think you can exist in music and not have been influenced by him. His music...
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Sheriff Jim Olsen of Carver County, Minnesota said that Prince's autopsy has been completed, but it could be weeks before a cause of death is known.