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Work continues at a winery in Clarksburg, Calif., last month. Farms are operating as essential businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic.

White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how wage rates for immigrant farmworkers can be reduced. Critics say doing so will hurt all workers.

Sandra Lindsay (left) a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester on Monday in the Queens borough of New York.

'Healing Is Coming': U.S. Starts Vaccinating People Against COVID-19

"I feel like healing is coming," New York critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay said after receiving her shot. "I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in our history."

A field hospital tent stands outside the emergency department of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital earlier this month in Los Angeles. California is returning to a tiered restriction system.

California Health Secretary On Lifting Stay-At-Home Orders And Vaccinations

California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly talked with NPR about why the state eased some COVID-19 restrictions and addressed the relatively slow vaccine rollout.

'The Familiar Vol. 3' Will Rewire Your Brain

Mark Z. Danielewski's proposed 27-part saga about a girl and her very strange cat rolls on in Volume 3, Honeysuckle and Pain — in which all the different voices and stories start to find a groove.

'The Familiar Vol. 2' Is Better, Stronger ... Weirder

Mark Z. Danielewski's epic saga (this is part two of a projected 27) is, on the surface, the story of a girl and her cat. But the typographical trickery and sheer weirdness make it much, much more.

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., addresses a news conference last week in Washington. Hirono introduced the legislation in the Senate.

In Rare Moment Of Bipartisan Unity, Senate Approves Asian American Hate Crimes Bill

The Senate passed new legislation to address a spike in hate crimes and violence targeted at the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Josh Hawley was the only senator to vote against it.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall over the constitutionality of Harvard's affirmative action program.

The Supreme Court adds affirmative action to its potential hit list

With the court already having heard arguments this term on abortion and guns, this case marks yet another politically charged issue that threatens to uproot decades of legal doctrine.

Dwanye "The Rock" Johnson speaks to those participating in the XFL Showcase at Choctaw Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday.

The XFL is relaunching. Here's what we know so far and how it will be different

The 2023 season will mark the third launch for the XFL spring football league. Now under new ownership, the league is hoping to bring an enhanced experience to fans next February.

<em>The Kitchen Table (La </em><em>table de cuisine)</em> by Paul Cezanne, 1888-1890.

For Paul Cezanne, An Apple A Day Kept Obscurity Away

In the 1800s, still-life painting was the bottom feeder of the art world, but that's where the French painter chose to leave his mark. "I want to astonish Paris with an apple," he's said to have said.

50 Years After Key Case, Problems Defending The Poor Persist

Next week marks the anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision that says defendants facing substantial jail time deserve legal representation in state courts, even if they can't afford it. Now, many lawyers say the system for providing defense attorneys for the poor is in crisis.

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