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Germany's two largest parties have emerged from Sunday's election in what amounts to a dead heat, according to preliminary results.

The center-left Social Democrats have won the biggest share of the vote in Germany's national election, beating outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Union bloc in a closely fought race.

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro speaks with Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at The New York Times, about what a series of new measures mean for California's housing crisis.

The massive fish have been protected since 1990, after they were nearly wiped out. But now, Florida is proposing allowing the first catch of goliath groupers in more than three decades.

Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her first address to the state’s Business Council at the Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing.

A team of scientists dated the footprints along an extinct lake bed in New Mexico and found them to be between 21,000 and 23,000 years old — far older than reliable evidence has suggested to date.

The State Assembly held a hearing Monday to discuss limiting a chemical compound known as “neonics” that is used in corn, soy, and wheat farming, and linked to population declines in some insects and birds.

Former Utica-area congressmember Sherwood Boehlert has died after a long illness. He was one week shy of his 85th birthday. Boehlert served parts of Central New York and the Mohawk Valley for nearly 25 years from 1983 to 2007 when he retired.

Jacki talks to Vikki Spruill, executive director of the environmental group Seaweb, about the group's decision to release chefs from their pledge to not serve swordfish. Due to the recent dwindling of the swordfish population, dropping to alarming levels, environmental groups spent the past two years convincing more than 700 chefs to take swordfish off their menus. Spruill explains why the ban has been lifted.

The infrastructure bill will set aside billions of dollars to update the electric grid. Experts weigh in on whether or not it will be enough as extreme weather events disrupt access to electricity.