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Roger Houser's family has worked the land in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley for three generations. But it has been getting harder to make a living raising cattle there. So Houser was excited when a solar company showed up offering to lease his property. It would have been good money heading into retirement. But his hopes were dashed by a four-year battle against solar development in Page County.

An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America

An NPR/Floodlight investigation found that a longtime Republican insider is stoking solar opposition by spreading bad information about health and environmental risks. Her influence is growing.

The mobile phone icon for the Coinbase app is shown in New York on April 13, 2021.

Coinbase lays off 18% of its workforce. The CEO cites an upcoming crypto winter

The company's platform allows people to buy and sell cryptocurrency. It had just gone public last year.

Drive-thru flu shot clinic at Sharp HealthCare Coronado hospital, Nov. 1, 2021.

Flu cases rise, county urges residents to be aware of symptoms to avoid spread

According to the county, more than 1,600 San Diegans have been diagnosed with a lab-confirmed case of influenza this season.

The Veterans Village of San Diego campus is shown on June 3, 2022.

Six months later, Veterans Village rehab center still on county admissions freeze

Ongoing investigations and a county admissions freeze are still plaguing the nonprofit’s renowned rehab center.

Around the world, people are feeling the push and pull of inflation

Argentines are partying hard in Buenos Aires' bustling bars, despite inflation. Across the pond, German companies are switching gears in response to high gas prices, as Russia shuts off its supply.

A man creates giant soap suds bubbles at dawn Monday, Sept. 5, on the Manhattan Beach Pier in Manhattan Beach, Calif., as a severe heat wave gripped the state. Most of California's 39 million people are facing sweltering weather.

California weathers heat wave without rolling blackouts

A brutal Western heat wave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state’s electrical grid has managed to handle record-breaking demand.

A mural in Washington, D.C. depicts Americans Siamak Namazi (left), who remains in Iran, and Jose Angel Pereira, who was released from Venezuela in October.

American Siamak Namazi is on a hunger strike in Iranian prison. Why now and for what?

Namazi is on a hunger strike to mark the seventh anniversary of a prisoner swap that did not include him, and calling on Biden to free detainees in Iran. His lawyer spoke with NPR about those efforts.

A taxi passes by Trump Tower, the headquarters of the Trump Organization, in New York City in 2021.

Trump's longtime accountant says a decade of his financial statements are unreliable

The accounting firm Mazars USA says it has severed its relationship with former President Donald Trump and his family business.

A man uses a hand fan in a park in central Madrid during a heat wave.

It's been a hot summer. Here's how people around the world have been staying cool

Extreme heat is increasingly common throughout the globe, and this summer hit us with a newfound vengeance. From Spain to India, Rough Translation looked at ways people try to beat the heat.

Iranian rock climber returns home after competing without a hijab

Elnaz Rekabi, the Iranian rock climber who competed without a hijab, returned home to a jubilant crowd at the airport. The question is, how will the Iranian government receive her?

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