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A stacker-reclaimer next to a stockpile of coal at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in Newcastle, New South Wales. Australia is a major coal producer. A new draft agreement at the climate summit in Scotland calls for ending coal power.

Draft agreement at the COP26 climate summit looks to rapidly speed up emissions cuts

The draft, circulated at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, calls for an end to coal power and more rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

Woman shops at a store in Caleixco, CA on November 23, 2021.

Downtown Calexico stores see low profits despite border reopening

It’s a familiar story for businesses along the U.S. Mexico Border: financial devastation due to the pandemic and border closures.

A train is ready on the station during the handover ceremony of the high-speed rail project in Vientiane, Laos, connecting the city with Kunming, China, on Dec. 3, 2021.

With U.S. focused on defense, China's trade and infrastructure sweep Southeast Asia

The Biden administration hopes to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia but lags far behind China, which has already built up major trade ties, as well as roads and a high-speed rail.

File photo of two voters cast their ballots at a vote center, in Huntington Beach, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021.

California Democratic supremacy tested by crime, inflation

With rising crime fears, a homelessness crisis and soaring prices, Republicans hope California's troubles will help create a pathway for some rare wins in the heavily Democratic state.

Lebanon's Unique Terrain Is Helping Hikers Connect With Nature, History And Culture

With areas of Lebanon mired in power cuts and a historic economic crisis, some are getting into the mountains where hiking has started to gain popularity.

Smoke rises from a brick kiln on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, in 2015. India's pledge this week to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2070 factors into a new, more optimistic, analysis by the International Energy Agency on climate change goals.

Latest climate pledges could limit global temperature rise, a new report says

The rise in average global temperatures by the end of the century could be held to 1.8 degrees Celsius.

Big Sell-Off In Chinese Real Estate Stocks Caused Worldwide Market Dip

Stock markets slumped amid worries about instability in China's financial system, creating uncertainty over one of the world's top economies.

Novelist Edwidge Danticat: Allow Haitians To Determine Their Own Future

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with award winning Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat about the challenges in Haiti.

The Nobel Prize gold medal during manufacture at the Swedish Mint. Each laureate receives the medal, which has the likeness of Alfred Nobel on its face.

'Auctions Are Everywhere': 2020 Economics Nobel Goes To 2 Americans

Stanford's Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson are honored for their "inventions of new auction formats." Auctions are now used to price Internet ads, wholesale electricity and fishing permits.

A copy of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act conference report sits at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 18, 2017. The legislation was passed using the budget reconciliation process.

A $1.5 trillion question: What is budget reconciliation? Here's an explainer

Democrats are hoping to use a maneuver called budget reconciliation to pass a big economic plan over Republican objections. Here's what you need to know about the process.

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