Vaxxed & Waxed, Booked & Busy: Post-Vaccination Beauty Salon Boom After a tough financial year for the beauty industry, salons are seeing a much welcome boost in bookings now that more adults in the U.S. are vaccinated. Mia Venkat
In A Wild News Cycle, Student Journalists Rise To The Challenge The Red & Black at the University of Georgia shows what it means to be entering journalism when trust in the media is low, disinformation is rampant and traditional media business models are broken. Mary Louise Kelly
Activists Want To Know What Amazon Is Going To Do About Nooses At Construction Site Nooses are being discovered at a Connecticut Amazon warehouse construction site. Black social justice leaders want to know who's responsible for these hate symbols and what Amazon is doing to stop it. Frankie Graziano
Vanessa Bryant Says Nike, Without Consent, Made Shoes She Designed To Honor Her Child The widow of the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant says she decided not to sell the shoe she designed to honor her late daughter, Gianna, yet has seen photos of people in possession of the sneaker. Joe Hernandez
What May's Job Data Means For The Middle Class Labor Market NPR's Noel King speaks with Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, about what the May jobs numbers could mean for the future of the low and middle class economy.
Labor Department Releases Job Numbers For May The Labor Department is set to report jobs data for May amid a political fight over whether extended unemployment benefits are dissuading Americans from rejoining the workforce. Scott Horsley
Federal Agencies Begin Planning For The Return To The Office The Biden administration gave federal agencies a mid-July deadline to submit plans for calling their employees back to the office, and says White House employees are expected back at work by then. Brian Naylor
A Racist Law From 1834 Stands In The Way Of A Chehalis Tribe Business Venture The Chehalis Tribe in Washington state has a plan to create jobs and revenue. The problem? A racist law from 1834. Dave Blanchard
Meat-Packer JBS Expects To Operate At Near Full Capacity After Ransomware Attack JBS, the world's biggest meat-packing company, expects operations to be back near full capacity Thursday as it recovers from a ransomware attack. Groups with ties to Russia are blamed for the attack. Noel King
Florida Law May Thwart Effort By Cruise Industry To Set Sale After a year's shutdown, the first U.S. cruise will sail from Ft. Lauderdale this month with all adult passengers vaccinated. That might not be possible after July 1 because of a new Florida law. Greg Allen