Students, Cities and States Take the Climate Fight to Court

By JOHN SCHWARTZ August 10, 2017 Can the courts fix climate change? Several groups and individuals around the United States have gone to court to try to do what the Trump administration has so far declined to do: confront the causes and effects of global...

The big takeaway from our first batch of department store earnings? Turnarounds take time

Department store chains Kohl’s, Macy’s and Dillard’s reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, offering a much-needed checkup on retail’s health, heading into the busiest shopping periods of the year. And overall it’s a mixed bag of...

Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track

By DANA GOLDSTEIN August 10, 2017 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In a sleek laboratory at Marshall University last month, four high school teachers hunched over a miniature steam-electric boiler, a tabletop replica of the gigantic machinery found in power plants....