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Louisiana has become the first state to include "Black" hair care among its cosmetology board's graduation requirements. As of June, cosmetology students must pass that test to receive a license.

The printing technology meant it took just 12 hours to build the 1,200-square-foot home. The house in Williamsburg, Va., comes with a computer file to print replacement knobs and light switch covers.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with CNBC airline reporter Leslie Josephs about holiday flight cancellations after COVID-19 infections cut back staffing. How do travelers recover?

The U.S. is in another COVID surge, due to the omicron variant. Holiday travelers find hundreds of flights are canceled. South Africa begins a week of mourning for the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

States in the South, such as Georgia, are aggressively wooing electric vehicle makers and suppliers — as they seek to chip away at the auto dominance Michigan has held for more than a century.

Homeless service providers in the state say they're struggling to keep people who are experiencing homelessness safe in the snow and below freezing conditions.

At least 18 people are dead and more than 35,000 displaced after heavy rains gave way to flooding in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.

When someone suffers a brain injury and loses the ability to speak, read and communicate, typically after a stroke, that condition is known as aphasia.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Prize for his long struggle to free South Africa from the racist policies of its apartheid-era government, has died in Cape Town.

Vaccinated health care staff and other essential workers can return to work five days — rather than the previous 10 days — after a positive COVID-19 test if they meet certain safety standards.