A long-awaited update to federal overtime rules means about 1.3 million workers will be entitled to extra pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. But critics say it doesn't go far enough.
British travel company Thomas Cook has collapsed, leaving 150,000 British vacationers stranded overseas. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Financial Times reporter Daniel Thomas.
As President Trump escalated his battle against California's Democratic leaders and threatened to intervene in the state's homelessness crisis, experts said his proposals could make matters worse.
There was a time when a strike at General Motors shocked the economy. In an era of global competition and changing tastes, neither GM nor the United Auto Workers are as powerful as they once were.
A new study found investors were significantly more likely to bet a company's stock price was going to increase if the company had more women on staff compared with other companies.
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates a quarter percentage point.