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Over 300 jobs are at stake if the company leaves its Cincinnati headquarters, so locals are tweeting the CEO. Not to be outdone, residents in Charlotte, N.C., have started their own campaign to lure the company to their city. It's a good-natured battle over a decision usually kept behind closed doors.

NASA plans to test launch its newest rocket next week — one it hopes will eventually take astronauts back to the moon. But the rocket's big price tag has some critics skeptical about its future.

President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan is designed to help low-income borrowers. But many will still have loans to pay off after Biden's changes.

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Corus International Chief Humanitarian Officer Tamara Demuria about the need for aid in Ukraine as winter approaches.

When Brian O. Selznick wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabaret — a graphic novel about an orphan in 1930s Paris — he imagined the secret spaces of a Paris train station. For inspiration, he visited Grand Central Terminal in New York City. But the scenes in the book — hidden tunnels, secret rooms, the giant clock tower — were all drawn from Selznick's imagination and later turned into the movie Hugo by Martin Scorcese, which is nominated for 12 Academy Awards. Selznick recently got to explore Grand Central's secrets for the first time and it turns out that life imitated art in shockingly faithful ways.

On Wednesday, New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie put the final kibosh on a massive rail project connecting New York and New Jersey. It was the nation's most expensive public works project under way before Christie halted construction last month, citing cost overruns that would ultimately burden New Jersey taxpayers. His decision comes despite pleas from federal and local officials to reconsider. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

With world leaders and dignitaries flying in from all over the world, this is how authorities in London are planning to keep everyone safe.

Across the Midwest, farmland prices more than doubled over the past two years — making it difficult for young farmers to grow their businesses.

A bench has gone missing in Philadelphia this week – and not for the first time. For skateboarders, the 13 feet of curved steel isn't just a bench. It's a storied treasure.

Gina Prince-Bythewood's latest film is a rousingly old-fashioned action-drama about women warriors in 19th-century West Africa.