Bill co-sponsor said the barriers to retirement plans are too high for many employees and small businesses. She hopes the change would provide more long term financial security.

Michigan House Republicans are looking to do away with the state’s clean energy standards.Their new energy plan would get rid of an overhaul passed in 2023, meant to push the state away from fossil fuels by the end of the next decade. It would also scale back some changes made in 2016 to limit energy waste.

The Michigan Senate passed five bills aiming to help with medical debt on Wednesday.The package would require hospitals to create financial assistance programs to help some low-income patients. Those would be available to people whose unpaid bills in one year total more than 30% of their annual income.

Many TSA workers received no money in their paychecks Friday as the partial DHS shutdown drags on. Fees paid by airline passengers keep piling up, even as airport security officers work without pay.

With espresso shots, kisses on the cheek and Andrea Bocelli singalongs, Team Italy has charmed the baseball world. But their mission is more ambitious: Turn Italy into a bona fide baseball factory.

Based on a series of novels by best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, Scarpetta follows two different mysteries from two different timelines. It's structurally complicated — but it all holds up.

Prior to the 1979 revolution, the Iranian singer and actor was a pop superstar. But she was jailed by the Islamic Republic and forced to agree to never sing or perform in public.

In the hilarious Netflix series How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, three women learn that a long estranged school friend has died in a suspicious manner — and take it upon themselves to investigate.

Fighting robots is a cultural fantasy going back at least to Richard Matheson's 1956 story "Steel." One Detroit impresario is now bringing the idea to the stage — and real audiences.

NPR critics share their hopes and predictions for the 2026 Academy Awards, which air on Sunday.

Israel has carried out air strikes in central Beirut for the first time since the latest conflict began, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks CNN's Fred Pleitgen for his takeaways from his recent reporting trip to Iran.

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental review for mining the fragile ecosystem.