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The federal government has all but dropped out of marketing the Affordable Care Act, so states, corporations and private groups are stepping up. Some are going cute, while others get serious.

President Trump is considering imposing tariffs or quotas on imported steel and aluminum. The Commerce Department says action is needed to protect the domestic industries vital to national security.

How much money is too much money to spend on a pair of sneakers? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael Sykes, staff writer with For The Win from USA TODAY Sports, on sneakerhead culture wars.

With egg prices soaring in the U.S., many people are crossing the border to buy them in Mexico. It's illegal to bring raw eggs back to the U.S., but that hasn't stopped some people from trying.

U.S. egg prices are soaring. Even though it's illegal to bring raw eggs into the U.S., many people are going to Mexico to buy them. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 27, 2023.)

U.S. employers added just 114,000 jobs in July as the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%. The weaker-than-expected report is adding to fears of an economic slowdown.

The study by the Pew Research Center says the median net worth of a white family in 2009 was 20 times greater than that of the average black family, and 18 times greater than the average Hispanic family. The gap is twice what it was before the Great Recession.

Austria has halted all train traffic from Hungary, after 12,000 migrants arrived in a single day. Now there's a backlog of migrants at Budapest's main station who want to travel west.

It turns out that the desire to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook, along with $610,000, will buy you a cup of coffee. That's the winning bid offered in a charity auction for up to an hour of Cook's time.

The cost of retail fraud is going up. For every dollar of fraudulent merchandise that's bought, retailers have to pay nearly $3 in fraud related costs. There's another price too, one many retailers aren't even aware of.