A gas pump nozzle is seen at a Miami gas station in 2018. Some activist shareholders are pushing companies to tie executive compensation to meeting climate targets. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
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Apple's app store is poised to reinstate Parler, which it suspended after the Capitol riots over what it described as violations of its guidelines around violent content. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Ruby Medina is part of a community of skateboarders on TikTok, and at her local skate park in Venice, Calif. Social media is driving a huge demand for boards at her family's skate shops. Shayn Almeida hide caption
How TikTok And Skater Girls Are Sending Skateboard Sales Off The Wall
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says it believes the Peloton Tread+ poses serious risks to children, but the company calls the warning "inaccurate and misleading." Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
A Georgia Tech employee receives a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination on the campus April 8. For a number of Americans, getting their shots is as easy as showing up to their workplace as some companies and institutions provide on-site vaccinations to their employees. Danny Karnik/AP hide caption
Producer Scott Rudin, center, and the cast of Hello, Dolly! accept the award for Best Revival of a Musical at the 2017 Tony Awards in New York City. Rudin says he's stepping back from his Broadway work. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions hide caption
Workers at Amazon's facility in Bessemer, Ala., held a historic vote on whether to form the company's first warehouse union. Bill Barrow/AP hide caption
What Amazon's Defeat Of Union Effort Means For The Future Of American Labor
Pro-union Amazon warehouse worker Jennifer Bates vows at a rally in Birmingham to keep fighting to unionize the Amazon Bessemer warehouse. Stephan Bisaha for NPR hide caption
Big Union Loss At Amazon Warehouse Casts Shadow Over Labor Movement
Barbara Gaught stands outside the home she's now renting in Billings, Mont., with her 5-year-old son, Blazen, and their dog, Arie. Gaught and her family were evicted from the mobile home they had owned outright and lived in for 16 years because they fell behind on 'lot rent' for the little plot of land under the mobile home. Louise Johns for NPR hide caption
Losing It All: Mobile Home Owners Evicted Over Small Debts During Pandemic
Diners eat lunch at Max's Oyster Bar in West Hartford, Conn., on March 19. Retail sales surged last month as $1,400 relief payments and easing coronavirus restrictions led shoppers to open their wallets. Jessica Hill/AP hide caption
Signs Of Economic Boom Emerge As Retail Sales Surge, Jobless Claims Hit Pandemic Low
Fears are rising about whether supplies of batteries can keep up with the expected surge in the production of electric vehicles. Pictured here is a close-up of individual battery cells contained in a battery pack module for a Lucid Motors electric vehicle. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat from California, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in March 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Shawn Steffee is business agent at Boilermakers Local 154 in Pittsburgh, and worries a transition to clean energy could cost him pay and hurt his pension. Reid Frazier/The Allegheny Front hide caption
Biden Says His Climate Plan Means Jobs. Some Union Members Are Skeptical
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Biden Says His Climate Plan Means Jobs. Some Union Members Are Skeptical
Coinbase on Wednesday became the first major cryptocurrency company to be publicly traded on the Nasdaq. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda in a scene from the movie "9 to 5" Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption
Falun Gong supporters marched from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument in July 2015 in Washington, D.C. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption