• Have helicopter parents changed how companies attract employees?

    Have helicopter parents changed how companies attract employees?

    Feb 17, 2020 10:41 PM EDT

    How 'helicopter parents' evolved The term “helicopter parenting” first entered the American lexicon in 1990 to describe parents who had become overbearing in their kids’ lives. In the words of child development researchers Foster W. Cline and Jim Fay, these parents were compelled to “hover over and rescue their children ...

  • Can beer help save an Arizona river?

    Can beer help save an Arizona river?

    Feb 16, 2020 10:01 PM EDT

    ... a local river. Ivette Feliciano reports. ... Hari Sreenivasan: Arizona has been in a state of drought for some two decades. That has helped motivate a search for new ways to conserve water, particularly in agriculture. NewsHour Weekend visited central Arizona to get a first hand look at what some organizations ...

  • What negative interest rates mean for businesses and home buyers

    What negative interest rates mean for businesses and home buyers

    Feb 14, 2020 06:57 PM EDT

    ... Official data released Friday showed that Germany's growth ground to a halt at the end of last year. Economists think there are also longer-term factors causing low rates, such as aging populations in rich countries and high rates of savings in China and other emerging economies. Low rates ...

  • An investment firm might buy the dot-org domain. Protesters fear rising costs

    An investment firm might buy the dot-org domain. Protesters fear rising costs

    Jan 25, 2020 12:12 AM EDT

    ... collect hundreds of millions of dollars a year in registration fees. Though domain names are less prominent these days as more people reach websites using search engines and apps, they are still important for email addresses, billboards and other non-digital advertising. The dot-org suffix has the distinction of ...

  • Copter crash kills Taiwan's top military officer and 7 others

    Copter crash kills Taiwan's top military officer and 7 others

    Jan 02, 2020 11:21 AM EDT

    ... sale for another 60 UH-Ms from the U.S. for $3.1 billion in 2010. The one that crashed was a model dedicated to search and rescue and had been delivered in 2018, according to the ministry. The loss of Shen and other high-ranking officials will require a ...

  • The influential people we said goodbye to in 2019

    The influential people we said goodbye to in 2019

    Dec 28, 2019 12:08 AM EDT

    Cathy Long, 95. A Louisiana Democrat who won her husband’s U.S. House seat after his sudden death in 1985 and served one term. Nov. 23. John Simon, 94. A theater and film critic known for his lacerating reviews and often withering assessment of performers' physical appearance. Nov. 24 ...

  • Trump knew about efforts to quash stories of alleged affairs, court records show

    Trump knew about efforts to quash stories of alleged affairs, court records show

    Jul 18, 2019 06:36 PM EDT

    ... money payments that his former attorney, Michael Cohen, orchestrated to Daniels and McDougal, who claimed they had affairs with Trump. Trump denies the allegations. The search warrants revealed Thursday cite phone records showing Trump spoke on the phone with Cohen at least five times between Oct. 8 and Oct. 28 ...

  • Tariffs imposed by India threaten to hurt California almond industry

    Tariffs imposed by India threaten to hurt California almond industry

    Jun 27, 2019 06:45 PM EDT

    MODESTO, Calif. — Along large swaths of California's lush central valley, almonds in the fuzzy hulls of tree leaves blow in the wind on thousands of acres of orchards. Thousands of miles away in India, customers browse the nut sections of busy street markets and grocery stores in search of ...

  • Hurricane Michael’s toll on Florida children’s mental health

    Hurricane Michael’s toll on Florida children’s mental health

    Jun 16, 2019 09:25 PM EDT

    People in Florida’s panhandle are still grappling with the devastation from last October’s Hurricane Michael. The most powerful storm to hit the region in history left many residents homeless and in search of aid. Now, children in particular are facing another after effect of the devastation -- mental health ...

  • After years of Brexit turmoil, UK's May to step down

    After years of Brexit turmoil, UK's May to step down

    May 24, 2019 10:45 PM EDT

    Britain's ruling Conservative Party is in search of a new leader, and the country in search of a new prime minister. After less than three years in office, Theresa May announced her resignation Friday, acknowledging that the time for her to try to usher in Brexit had concluded. May ...