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Pressure is mounting on CEOs as everyone from investors to employees sounds the alarm about the climate crisis. Some companies are responding, but even ambitious targets won't be enough on their own.

Elizabeth Freeman used the colonists' ideas of equality and independence to sue for her freedom. Her lawyer was Theodore Sedgwick, who would later become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Steyer, the billionaire hedge fund invester and climate change activist, is betting everything on South Carolina. He'll learn Saturday if it paid off.

Film director Roman Polanski says he won't attend the French equivalent of the Academy Awards after outrage over his history of sexual abuse. He said the ceremony was turning into a "public lynching."

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Tim Murtaugh, communications director for Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, about the president' strategy. Amid coronavirus concerns, Trump is making campaign stops.

The U.S. stock market ended its worst week since the financial crisis with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 12.4%. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell promises to support the economy as necessary.

To close out Black History Month, Short Wave is highlighting just a few of the many incredible black scientists we've featured so far on the show.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has asked for access to witnesses and documents as part of what he calls a look into whether the White House has been interfering with justice.

The new cases, which have yet to be confirmed, were reported in California, Oregon and Washington. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says the risk of the disease spreading is now "very high."

Families in southeast Montana are demanding law enforcement review all cases of missing and murdered indigenous people in Big Horn, Rosebud, and...