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The animal rights organization, a longtime critic of factory farming practices, has collaborated with McDonald's to require pork suppliers to figure out how to phase out crates that confine pregnant sows.

Staples is trying, for the second time, to buy its rival Office Depot. This time the landscape has changed and the company says joining forces will make for a stronger company.

The Justice Department claimed patient safety celebrity Dr. Chuck Denham solicited payments from a medical products company to win a prestigious National Quality Forum endorsement for its antiseptic.

A long-term spending bill has been delayed over partisan squabbling about unrelated measures, including health care, immigration and gun control.

The Federal Reserve in October will begin unwinding the extraordinary stimulus it used to battle the Great Recession. That means that over the long run, rates on car loans and mortgages could go up.

The rise of Donald Trump on the political stage is the culmination of a seemingly inconvenient electoral coupling: big money interests and a more extreme right-wing populace of blue collar voters. Does the GOP represent “forgotten” Americans? Or does it represent the superrich?

The April deadline comes around every year. Still, with just days left before taxes are due, many people continue to put off filing. The boxes of receipts, stacks of W-2s and 1099s are daunting enough. Add in row after row of fill-in boxes on the 1040, and it's no wonder many people procrastinate.

Teddy Nelson from Logan, W.Va., died from COVID-19 at the age of 25. His friends and a former coach remember him in this obituary.

In a speech, Bush criticized "the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean of Ukraine."

Author HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. He is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University as well as a staff writer for "The New Yorker." His past books include the bestselling memoir "Colored People." In his new book, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man" (Random House) Gates records the thoughts of some of society's most revered black American men. In the book, the men debate the current state of black men and the difficulties of race and gender relations in American society. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES THRU THE END OF THE SHOW).HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. cont'd.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . .FRED GOLDMAN and his daughter KIM GOLDMAN talk with Terry Gross about their experiences at the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials. They have a new book "His Name is Ron: Our Search for Justice." Also, bestselling author HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. discusses the effects of the Simpson trial on black society and the reemergence of black theater. His new book is "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man." That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.