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  • Weekly Jobless Claims Rise Slightly
    The level, however, remains consistent with moderate job growth.
  • Jobless Claims Rose Last Week
    The increase — of 16,000 claims — may be mostly due to seasonal shutdowns of auto plants, which are retooling.
  • WNIJ’s Gas Price Monday: Oct. 12, 2015
    Gas prices in Illinois fluctuated a little from last week, but nothing exceeded a dime since then.According to AAA, gallon of regular gas in the Rockford…
  • Comptroller: Illinois Financial Situation Getting Worse
    The numbers are bad, and quickly getting worse.That was the message today from Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger, as she urged state leaders again to…
  • Mask mandates end and cases are falling: Where we are now in the pandemic
    Across the United States, the number of cases and deaths continue to fall after a surge caused by the omicron variant.
  • In Athens, Greek Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis announces that Los Angeles' J.P. Getty Museum has agreed to return to Greece two Greek antiquities in its collection.
    Getty Museum to Return Greek Artifacts
    The Greek government and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announce an agreement to return two works currently held in the Getty's collection. The return comes after the Greek government was able to prove the two antiquities were stolen.
  • John Kenneth Galbraith in his library, 1965.
    John Kenneth Galbraith, In His Own Words
    John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of U.S. politicians. He spoke to Howard Berkes in 1999.
  • Making a Name for Themselves
    Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Kathy Emerson from Brunswick, Maine. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WMEA in Portland.)
  • The continued death toll from COVID led to another drop in life expectancy in 2021.
    U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row
    The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.
  • Backroom Primary: Undecided Superdelegate Farr
    More than 300 superdelegates across the country have yet to commit to either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. California has the most superdelegates, and nearly two dozen of them are uncommitted — about twice as many as any other state. One of them is Rep. Sam Farr.
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