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Cambria CEO Marty Davis speaks on the job site of the countertop company's new $80 million quartz processing plant and rail center in Randolph, Minn., on August 13, 2025. (Photo by The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

How a CEO and Trump donor is weaponizing tariffs against his rivals

Cambria CEO Marty Davis has successfully asked the U.S. government to put tariffs on quartz. His business competitors are crying foul.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as secretary of health and human services in the Oval Office on Feb. 13, 2025.

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

Leslie Adams holds a photo of his mother, Shirley, who died after developing infected bedsores at a rehabilitation center, according to a lawsuit he filed. A court awarded the family $17 million, but they are still trying to collect it.

Real estate investors are buying up long-term care facilities. Residents can suffer

Real estate investment trusts are landlords for thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. Some select the managers and keep close watch but deny blame for bad care.

Rosa María Carranza attends a protest supporting the temporary protected status program outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Nov. 18, 2025. Carranza, a resident of neighboring Oakland, worries she could lose her legal status and risk indefinite detention or deportation.

She paid into Medicare for years. Trump's immigration policy will end her coverage

A provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make Rosa María Carranza and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible. Her once secure retirement is in question.

Home to just 221 people, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the only settlement on Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island.

The busiest place you've never seen

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island.

Demonstrators outside City Hall in Los Angeles on March 2 protest against the U.S. and Israel's attack on Iran.

The longer the Iran war goes, the worse it could be for Trump. Just look at history

President Trump started a war with no clear end in sight. If his predecessors' experiences are an indication, conflicts don't bode well for presidential approval ratings.

This photo shows an exterior view of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit building from 2002 in Washington, D.C.

Why a 98-year-old federal judge is asking the Supreme Court for her job back

Pauline Newman's story shines a light on the aging judiciary, where judges are getting older and lifetime tenure is raising thorny questions about retirement.

How Epstein and Maxwell used an elite Midwest arts school to prey on girls

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell lavished money on the Interlochen Center for the Arts to gain access, documents show. In the process, two teenagers were pulled into their orbit.

Bill aims to stop 'claim sharks' from targeting disabled vets after NPR investigation

The bipartisan bill would block companies from using auto-dialers to harvest private information about disabled veterans. The firms charge veterans for a service lawmakers say is supposed to be free.

President Trump holds a press briefing at the White House on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against his use of emergency powers to implement international trade tariffs.

Poll: Most say the state of the union is not strong and the U.S. is worse off

Ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, evidence continues to mount that President Trump is facing political headwinds.

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