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Five years after Hurricane Sandy, residents of a coastal Staten Island neighborhood are selling their homes to the state, leaving behind barren and decrepit land.

President-elect Joe Biden wants to conserve 30% of U.S. land and water by 2030. It's part of a global push to avoid the worst effects of climate change and the decline of the natural world.

The pop star has spent a life on the go, so the pandemic offered him a rare chance for reflection, to separate the person from the pop star. Also, of course, to record a new album.

In Tennessee, proposed federal cuts in some areas of drug enforcement may affect the ability of authorities to seize methamphetamine -- or meth -- labs in rural communities. In 2004, Tennessee ranked second nationwide in the number of meth labs seized. From member station WUOT in Knoxville, Matt Shafer Powell reports.

Gas prices have soared just as workers who have been remote for two years return to their commutes. Some are asking for companies to wait until prices come down to bring people back.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Dnitra Landon, a GM assembly line worker at the GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant. She was recently told about planned layoffs by GM.

The families of the 346 people who died in two Boeing 737 Max plane crashes want a federal judge to rescind a deal with prosecutors that kept the airplane manufacturer from facing criminal charges.

Companies embroiled in the opioid crisis are finalizing mega-settlements. They are expected to pay more than $30 billion to settle claims that they fueled the deadly addiction epidemic.

Cloverfield, a new monster movie set in New York and filmed almost entirely on hand-held camcorders, is produced by J.J. Abrams, the man behind the hit TV show Lost.

From the health plan deficit to the decrease in cannabis tax income, costs are up and revenues are down.