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Gov. JB Pritzker held off filling top vacancies at Illinois’ unemployment office because he was planning to merge it with another state department. Then...

Dorie Greenspan shares new recipes for savory and sweet bakes such as a coconut milk chocolate cake, a double-decker salted caramel cake, scones pudding and maple bacon chocolate chip cookies.

Parents have been circulating ideas for how to keep kids happy — or at least occupied — during this time of social isolation due to COVID-19. Our Arts Desk has some heart-felt suggestions to offer.

The Rio Grande Valley is the busiest stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border for crossing. NPR recently spent time on both sides of the border here, where immigration is part of everyday life.

Holiday traditions are deeply steeped in many families, but there’s always room for new favorites.

Food Network star Paula Deen loves bacon, butter and, of course, Southern cooking. In her new cookbook, Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible, Deen explores the regional variations of Southern food.

Edited by Fleming, the book features essays by researchers, music therapists and artists including Yo-Yo Ma and Anna Deavere Smith.

Five years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, the future of the intersection where it happened is uncertain. Today, a memorial is set up in the partially blocked street. But some want to move on. How does a community reckon with its past and confront its future?

The immigrant population is growing fast in states far from the southern border. Employers in North Dakota say the economy needs more workers, but there's still deep ambivalence about immigration.

A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.