Month: September 2023

Finally old enough to drink, this bantam hen had a rough start to her record-breaking life. [MORE]

Employers added 187,000 jobs in August, while the unemployemnt rate rose to 3.8%. The data indicates a steady labor market heading into the Labor Day weekend. [MORE]

This Labor Day weekend will be one of the busiest for travel. Settlement talks falter in the 9/11 terrorism case. These are the best video games of the summer. [MORE]

NPR’s Michel Martin talks to David Koenig, airlines reporter for The Associated Press, about the weekend could be complicated by fallout from Hurricane Idalia and flight staff protests. [MORE]

Hmm, it’s still a bit of a mystery. Here’s what is known about the small herd of goats who went running through the streets in March. [MORE]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency needs $16 billion in emergency funding, the White House says. That’s up $4 billion from a request it made last month, due to recent disasters. [MORE]

Three and a half years after the start of the pandemic, employers are getting serious about increasing the amount of time workers spend in the office and trying new strategies to overcome resistance. [MORE]

The multistory, below-ground structures in Diyarbakir — ID’ed by using ground-penetrating radar — may have sheltered some 10,000 people during wartime many centuries ago, archaeologists believe. [MORE]

From Simone Biles to Joe Biden, there were backflips and small steps taken in the news this week. Were you paying attention? [MORE]

In the Georgia election interference case, conflicting legal strategies of 19 co-defendants and the crowded calendar for Donald Trump’s other court cases complicate the path to trial. [MORE]