• The Fed aims to clamp down on inflation with rate hikes. Will it work?

    The Fed aims to clamp down on inflation with rate hikes. Will it work?

    Jan 26, 2022 11:45 PM EST

    Lisa Desjardins: Powell noted that unemployment is low overall, 3.9 percent, arguing the job market can handle a shift from the Fed. Jerome Powell: I think there is quite a bit of room to raise interest rates without risking the labor market. This is, by so many measures, a ...

  • How 'mix and match' COVID-19 booster shots work, according to an infectious disease expert

    How 'mix and match' COVID-19 booster shots work, according to an infectious disease expert

    Oct 27, 2021 07:38 PM EST

    ... As an infectious disease expert, I have closely followed the development of the COVID-19 vaccines and the research on how immunity and vaccine efficacy shift over time. With the swirling mass of news around how effective the COVID-19 vaccines are and who needs booster shots and when, it ...

  • How infrastructure funding to expand broadband access could create a ‘generational shift’

    How infrastructure funding to expand broadband access could create a ‘generational shift

    Aug 03, 2021 10:35 PM EST

    ... have topographical challenges when it comes to connecting places where there are more cows than farms -- than people.On the urban side, we need to work on competition. People should have a variety of choices of where they can actually access service. And that's not always the case. And ...

  • How a rise in remote employment may impact post-pandemic work life

    How a rise in remote employment may impact post-pandemic work life

    Jun 03, 2021 10:25 PM EST

    ... care provider and union member Hillary Rothrock agrees. Hillary Rothrock: Those who have to leave their homes, who are not able to stay home and work should be compensated as such. And I do believe that it's something we should look at, such as a shift differential, hazard pay ...

  • Blinken touts Biden climate policies as shift from Trump

    Blinken touts Biden climate policies as shift from Trump

    May 18, 2021 12:50 PM EST

    REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — On a trip overshadowed by the crisis in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday touted the Biden administration's abrupt shift in its predecessor's climate policies as he visited Iceland for talks with senior officials from the world's Arctic ...

  • Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package

    Pelosi pledges swift work on major infrastructure package

    Mar 14, 2021 11:09 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday pledged swift work by Congress on a job and infrastructure package that will be “fiscally sound,” but said she isn’t sure whether the next major item on President Joe Biden’s agenda will attract Republican backing. Fresh off a major legislative victory ...

  • In foreign policy shift, Biden lifts terrorist designation for Houthis in Yemen

    In foreign policy shift, Biden lifts terrorist designation for Houthis in Yemen

    Feb 16, 2021 11:40 PM EST

    ... Lenderking: As I say, they have ways of getting messages to us. And so we have taken those. And we will do our best to work constructively with those messages and with the various groups in Yemen who are supportive of a peace process. Nick Schifrin: Your critics say that ...

  • In Miami, making live theater work during the pandemic

    In Miami, making live theater work during the pandemic

    Jan 25, 2021 11:20 PM EST

    And I think the paradigm shift opened up the way we were able see the possibilities of what we could still do. Jeffrey Brown: The five-year-old company, described by Hausmann as a theater of color proudly representing its diverse city, normally performs a lively mix of new plays ...

  • Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions

    Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions

    Jan 06, 2021 12:34 AM EST

    NEW YORK (AP) — The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. The annual show would shift from its original Jan. 31 broadcast to March 14, according to a joint ...

  • Democrats shift position on a sized-down economic relief bill

    Democrats shift position on a sized-down economic relief bill

    Dec 02, 2020 11:40 PM EST

    ... a timely fashion, so that we can consider passing it in the Senate, maybe do the same in the House or some version of it, work out our differences, and get it done on a bipartisan basis. I think that's what the American people are clamoring for. Judy Woodruff ...