After district officials threatened to turn children over to foster care for the unpaid amount, a prominent media figure and a corporate CEO offered to settle the debt but were rebuffed.
Ex-special counsel Robert Mueller testifies Wednesday before 2 House panels. DOJ launches a review into major tech firms. And a Pennsylvania school district rebuffs donor efforts to pay lunch debts.
That's good for farmers but bad for taxpayers, who subsidize government-backed crop insurance. The fate of research that forecasts these costs is in doubt as economists and scientists leave the USDA.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, about the economic impacts of Brexit and how they could also impact U.S. businesses.
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Susan Davis and Jason Furman, who was the Council of Economic Advisers chairman in the Obama administration, about the plan and whether it's fiscally responsible.
The credit reporting agency will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach that affected nearly 150 million people.
The PetroCaribe program provided fuel to Venezuela's neighbors on long-term credit to spur economic growth. What has happened now that Venezuela is in free fall?
The aid group Mercy Corps believes that the new Libra currency could help funnel aid to the poor. But critics wonder why the charity has teamed up with a controversial company.