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At Monday night's Love Rising event in Nashville, Tenn., artists including Allison Russell, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Joy Oladokun and Amanda Shires, along with drag artists, united against new legislation targeting drag performances and transgender people.

'Where am I going to be free to be who I am?'

Due to a new Tennessee law limiting drag performances, many drag artists, as well as trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming musicians, worry about their prospects in Nashville and beyond.

The seal for the City of San Diego is pictured above in this undated photo.

San Diego City Council sunsets COVID-19 emergency, city employee vax mandate

The San Diego City Council Tuesday voted to end the city's COVID-19 emergency declaration and a city employee vaccine mandate at the end of February.

A change in fortune: In just two years, Americans have gone from near record savings and plunging debt, to near record-low savings and sky rocketing credit card debt. What happened?

Credit Card Nation: How we went from record savings to record debt in just two years

U.S. consumers had the highest savings rate on record in 2020 and credit card debt was plummeting. Now our savings is gone and debt is surging. What happened?

Gold has long been considered a pretty old school investment: not very profitable and mostly for the maverick investor. But recently, investors all over the world have taken a new shine to gold.

The new global gold rush

After decades of being seen as a go-nowhere investment, investors are taking a shine to gold again.

The Ukraine war means a potato chip company has to rethink its formula

Sarah Cohen, CEO of Route 11 Potato Chips, speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about the company's sunflower seed oil deficit because of the Russian conflict in Ukraine and how the business is coping.

File photo of a man with his gun on his hip as he works at the Spring Guns and Ammo store Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, in Spring, Texas.

Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the government can't stop people who have domestic violence restraining orders filed against them from owning guns.

A 'help wanted' sign is displayed in a window of a store in Manhattan, New York City, on Dec. 2, 2022. U.S. employers added an unexpectedly strong 517,000 jobs in January, showcasing the labor market is red-hot. The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than half a century.

U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs last month. It's a surprisingly strong number

U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs in January, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.4% . The job market remains tight, despite signs of a slowing economy.

Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su, President Joe Biden's nominee to serve as the next secretary of labor, speaks at the White House on March 1.

Julie Su, advocate for immigrant workers, is Biden's pick for Labor Secretary

The career-civil rights lawyer and former California labor head would be the first Asian American to serve as a secretary in Biden's cabinet.

Even with Beijing's backing, Hong Kong's new leader faces big challenges

Hong Kong gets a new leader on Friday with strong backing from Beijing, but faces challenges with a sluggish economy that remains closed to the outside world — and China — by COVID controls.

Confronting The Climate Emergency

We devote this week's episode to the new IPCC report on global climate change and examine the political and business challenges here in San Diego.

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