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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jacqueline Smith of the International Transport Workers' Federation about the roughly 20,000 seafarers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz in the midst of the Iran war.

NPR's Jane Arraf reports on developments in the war in the Middle East.

The ruling comes after Dr. Julie Goodman submitted what she called “corrections” to her findings—updates that included nearly 300 changes to her analysis of dozens of medical studies.

Two families - the Newmans and the Stanleys were laid off from Briggs and Stratton at the beginning of the 1990's. They're the subjects of an upcoming PBS documentary by Bill Moyers, who visited the families repeatedly in the last decade to see how they were coping. Moyers tells their stories to Lisa Simeone.

Storms across the nation's eastern half forced airlines to cancel roughly 4,000 flights nationwide. Blizzards buried parts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, rains flooded homes in Hawaii, and California and Arizona are dealing with unusually high temperatures.

Community members have been advocating for a new Ashley Elementary School for years due to issues with mold and air quality in the current building.

The Jones Act restricts which ships can carry goods between U.S. ports. Experts say temporarily lifting the act will do little to affect gas prices.

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Cooper stopped in Asheville for his “Make Stuff Cost Less” tour.

A data center developer is considering a site near Sanford in Lee County, and might even pursue fracking to fuel the facility — a first for North Carolina. Monday night, a crowd of concerned citizens wearing anti-fracking buttons packed Sanford’s McSwain Center to push for a data center moratorium.

North Carolina utilities pass 100% of their fuel costs on to customers. But the industry has changed in recent decades, and utilities now exert more control over when and how they buy fuel — or whether they need it at all.