The Massachusetts Army National Guard has scaled back its proposal for a controversial machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod. But officials with the Environmental Protection Agency expressed skepticism that the new proposal would alleviate all their concerns. The Guard's proposal comes as a response to a critical EPA...

Students at UConn were the latest to protest over the Israel-Hamas war. Scores of students gathered on the Storrs campus starting late Thursday afternoon. Police at the scene took down tents. One person was arrested, a university spokesperson said. The protesters are calling on the university to divest from companies...

Finally today, you know that whole thing about George Washington not being able to tell a lie and fessing up to damaging his father's cherry tree? Yeah, that is a myth. But we do know that there were cherries at the first president's home. AILSA CHANG, HOST:. That's right. Last...

Today, the highest court in the state of New York overturned Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction. Now, he is not a free man. He will still serve a sentence for a sex crimes conviction in California. At this point, the former Hollywood mogul has been accused of sexual abuse by nearly a hundred women. But those allegations came from largely outside the court system, and judges today decided that his New York trial had not been fair. New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor broke the allegations against Weinstein back in 2017, alongside her colleague, Megan Twohey. Jodi Kantor joins us now to discuss the latest. Welcome back to the program.

Latino legislators and community members were proud of many changes across Connecticut at the 10th Latino legislative summit, Orgullo y Poder, this week. Residents identifying as white in Connecticut declined from roughly almost 79% in 2000 to 62% in 2022, according to Charles Venator Santiago, a professor at the University of Connecticut. Unofficial U.S. Census estimates from 2022 suggest that the Hispanic community is on track to comprise one-quarter of the state's population in the near future due to its younger demographics and are anticipated to be a critical part of the labor force of the next generation, according to Venator Santiago. But despite the growing influence of the Latino community, disparities still need addressing.

This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. One day in the summer of 2008, Rick Mangnall was making the long commute from his home in the remote mountains of California to his teaching job at a local community college. The drive took him down a road that was flanked on both sides by large slabs of granite rock.

Ten years ago, the safety of drinking water came to the forefront nationally because of a crisis in Flint, Mich. There were high levels of lead and other contaminants in the city's tap water because of mistakes made when the city changed the source of its drinking water. A decade later, some Flint residents, like 82-year-old Carol Harris, still will not use the tap water.

A lot goes into planning a personal budget – and the price of food and how it fluctuates with inflation can be a big part of that. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food prices rose by 25 percent from 2019 to 2023. And a report from Purdue University found that a majority of consumers expect food prices to keep rising in the coming year.

Greenhouse gas emissions in Connecticut are going up and the state’s transportation sector remains the top greenhouse gas polluter, according to a new state report released Thursday. The COVID pandemic brought with it one bright spot for the environment: a dip in greenhouse gas emissions as cars stayed off...

Haiti's de facto prime minister, Ariel Henry, has resigned and a new transitional council has been sworn in in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Finance Minister Michel Patrick Boisvert has been appointed as the interim prime minister. The nine-person transitional council, including seven who have voting powers, was sworn in during...

Electric bills for Eversource customers are slated to go up this summer, according to bill adjustments released by the utility this week. The average residential customer can expect a hike of about $13 per month starting July 1. The rate adjustments come as residents enter the summer months, when people...

When Ice Cube talks about "gangsta rap," he is usually distancing himself from the phrase, describing it as a label he was erroneously given by the press and the public. Perhaps he draws that line because he really wasn't out banging — even if, during his time in N.W.A, he was writing Eazy-E's raps too, which typified a sound and swagger befitting his bandmate's real-life history in the street. "Boyz-n-the-Hood" painted a vivid picture of a set-tripping, trigger-ready, six-fo' riding spark plug drinking 40s and making the front page of the LA Times. The label came to characterize a certain cast of street soldiers, characters that would appear not only in the songs of N.W.A, Snoop Dogg and Ice-T, but the hood cinema of John Singleton and the Hughes Brothers. The music landscape has shifted since: LA is no longer the hub of rap culture, the gangstas have spread all over, and the position the West Coast prototype once held on the charts and in the pop consciousness is somewhat diminished. But you don't have to look hard or far to find them, doing what they do best for those that might still try to quote them.

WASHINGTON — More than five years after the crashes of two 737 Max jets killed 346 people, families who lost loved ones are still pushing the U.S. Justice Department to hold Boeing accountable. Family members and their lawyers met with federal prosecutors for five hours on Wednesday. They emerged...

Editor's note: This report includes descriptions of sexual assault. On Thursday morning, the highest court in New York state overturned the 2020 felony sex crime conviction of former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and ordered a new trial. Weinstein has been serving a 23-year sentence in New York on the basis of that conviction. The Manhattan district attorney's office told NPR it intends to retry the case.

With Mother's Day rapidly approaching, we're once again thinking of all the things our moms did and still do for us. For many, the (incredibly long) list includes all the amazing music they shared, or that otherwise remind us of them. So, we want to know: What song reminds you of your mom? (It's a question we've asked a handful of times over the years.)

Among the Great Moments in Literary History I wish I could've witnessed is that day, sometime after May 15, 1886, when Lavinia Dickinson entered the bedroom of her newly deceased older sister and began opening drawers. Out sprang poems, almost 1,800 of them. Given that Emily Dickinson had only published...

JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China – China launched three astronauts into space on Thursday night, bound for the country's homemade space station where they will live and work for half a year. The Shenzhou-18 launch is the latest in a series rotating taikonauts, as China calls its space explorers...

"This is a really lousy year," said Tracy O’Connell Novick describing what Massachusetts public school districts are going through right now as they plan next year’s budget. Novick is a specialist on finance and state education funding at the Massachusetts School Committee Association (MASCA). “Right now, my job...

Connecticut's first-in-the-nation paid sick leave law from 2011 moved closer Wednesday to being updated, requiring all employers, down to those with a single worker, to provide their employees with time off by 2027. Cheers were heard from the House of Representatives gallery after lawmakers voted 88-61 in favor of legislation...

A genuinely historic event takes place at the Supreme Court on Thursday. The justices hear arguments on Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution after leaving office for any of his official acts while he was president. Specifically, Trump claims that the steps he took to block the certification of Joe Biden's election were part of his official duties and that he thus cannot be criminally prosecuted.