Business

Turbo Tax is displayed on a device on February 22, 2018 in San Francisco, California.

National

The FTC bars TurboTax maker Intuit from advertising 'deceptive' free services

12:18pm January 23, 2024

by Joe Hernandez

Regulators say the company advertised "free" tax filing products and services that many Americans were ineligible for. Intuit called the opinion "deeply flawed."

Panama Canal reduces traffic by more than a 3rd because of severe drought conditions

5:04am January 23, 2024

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Robert Handfield, professor of operations and supply chain management at North Carolina State University, about the bottle neck the reduction in traffic is causing.

Cook County board president Toni Preckwinkle (center) announces the county's debt relief program, along with executives from several local hospitals and Allison Sesso, President & CEO of RIP Medical Debt (far left).

NYC joins a growing wave of local governments erasing residents' medical debt

5:04am January 23, 2024

by Yuki Noguchi

The city is partnering with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to buy up and forgive unpaid medical bills. The trend started in Cook County, Ill., and is spreading to cities across the country.

A United Airlines Boeing 737-900ER arrives at Los Angeles International Airport in 2019.

National

The FAA says airlines should check the door plugs on another model of Boeing plane

3:41pm January 22, 2024

by Joel Rose

The Federal Aviation Administration is recommending that airlines visually inspect the door plugs of Boeing 737-900ER jets after some airlines reported unspecified issues with the bolts.

Sports

After recent layoffs, the future of Sports Illustrated is uncertain

7:59am January 21, 2024

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Washington Post reporter Ben Strauss about recent layoffs at Sports Illustrated and the future of the revered magazine.

State-backed Russian hackers accessed senior Microsoft leaders' emails, company says

1:25pm January 20, 2024

by The Associated Press

Microsoft says hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of its leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.

Economy

Public sentiment about the economy is looking up, polls show

8:08am January 20, 2024

Americans are starting to feel better about the economy. Public sentiment has jumped sharply in the last two months.

The Galaxy Leader cargo ship was seized by Houthi fighters in the Red Sea in late November. The Bahamas-flagged, British-owned Galaxy Leader, operated by a Japanese firm but having links to an Israeli businessman, was headed from Turkey to India when it was seized and rerouted to the Yemeni port of Hodeida.

As Houthi attacks on ships escalate, experts look to COVID supply chain lessons

7:27am January 20, 2024

by Scott Neuman

Shipping experts hope lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Suez Canal disruption in 2021 and Somali pirate attacks more than a decade ago will mitigate widespread problems this time.

A George Mason University fan holds up the cover of a Sports Illustrated magazine at a send-off for the university's team on March 29, 2006, in Fairfax, Virginia. The union representing the magazine's staff said that SI's publisher plans to cut "a significant number, possibly all" of its union-represented staff.

Sports

'Sports Illustrated' to lay off most of its staff amid severed licensing deal

9:02pm January 19, 2024

by Emma Bowman

The union representing the magazine's staff said that SI's publisher plans to cut "a significant number, possibly all" of its union-represented staff.

National

'Sports Illustrated' faces uncertain future

5:48pm January 19, 2024

Sports Illustrated has announced that it's laying off a significant amount — if not all — of the News Guild-represented workers on Friday, prompting responses from the union.

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