Search results for

Illinois’ first congressional remap draft is out but changes could be in store as lawmakers return to Springfield Tuesday for the first of their final two weeks of scheduled session in 2022.

NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports on two new research studies that give clues about clinical depression, an illness that afflicts 18 million people in this country. Writing in two scientific journals, this month's issues of The American Journal of Medical Genetics and The American Journal of Psychiatry, these researchers report finding a genetic clue that may explain why many more women suffer from depression than men, and a specific brain abnormality that may help lead to an explanation of why depression tends to strike repeatedly in many people.

Robert Siegel talks to songwriter Mike Stoller of the team Leiber and Stoller about the deaths of two doo-wop performers. Bill Mitchell of the Clovers died last week at age 71. Billy Guy of the Coasters died Tuesday at age 66. Stoller and his partner wrote many of the best known songs for both groups and knew the men. The Coasters' Searchin and the Clovers' Love Potion Number 9 were among the songs written by Stoller.

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's new book, readers follow protagonist Lucy Barton as she reconsiders all that she thought she knew about her ex-husband and their marriage.

Biden wants to prove to world leaders ahead of a major international summit on climate change that he's got the political capital to do something about the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

Tech companies struggle to diversify because their work environments are full of harassment and discrimination, Ina Fried of Axios reports.

The airstrikes in Tigray killed at least three civilians in an area ravaged by conflict and food scarcity.

As the U.N's weapons inspectors head to Iraq, the U.S. military builds up its forces in the Persian Gulf. Russell Lewis reports on one of the first units to be deployed.

A new report finds that 65,000 more men have died in the U.S. of COVID-19 than women.

His works debuted at a public memorial earlier this month in St. Louis, where families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 were present.