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Hospitals are facing widespread shortages of personal protective equipment, or PPE, for health care workers. Columbia University alumni associations are raising money to purchase much needed N95 masks, seen here, gowns and other gear.

Alumni In China Lead Effort To Procure PPE For Medical Workers In New York

Spurred by the concerns of members in China, Columbia University's alumni associations raised more than $1 million to buy desperately needed masks and other gear.

We're still combing through all your emails about the acc.

What You Emailed Us About Using The 'ACC'

After we introduced a name for that annoying email practice of strategically cc-ing a manager to gain an upper hand, you responded with an avalanche of email. Here's a sample of your thoughts.

John Vensel is a contract attorney at the Orrick law firm in Wheeling, W.Va. He says contract work is today's economic reality.

Freelanced: The Rise Of The Contract Workforce

One in five workers is a contract worker, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the workforce, a shift with far-reaching implications.

Two million Americans have started freelancing in the past 12 months, according to a new study from Upwork, a freelance job platform. And that has increased the proportion of the workforce that performs freelance work to 36%.

Jobs In The Pandemic: More Are Freelance And May Stay That Way Forever

Before the coronavirus hit, many workers chose freelance or contract jobs because they preferred the flexibility and variety it offered. But now millions are turning to freelancing out of necessity.

ACC Follows NCAA In Pulling Championships From North Carolina

The Atlantic Coast Conference decided to pull many post-season tournaments out of North Carolina this season due to a controversial state law. This move follows the NCAA decision to remove college championship games out of the state.

The ongoing quest for accountability two years after the Jan. 6 riot

Two years ago, rioters who supported Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It has taken time to hold people accountable.

What to do about trolls in comments sections? It's part of a big conversation in tech this week.

Tech Week That Was: Online Comments, iPad Hacks And The ACC

Can online comments be redeemed? That conversation, plus highlights from our tech coverage on-air and online, are in our latest week in review.

ACC is latest conference to expand by adding Stanford, Cal and SMU

What does the realignment of the big NCAA conferences tell us about the future of college sports? NPR's Daniel Estrin talks to Daniel Libit, a reporter at Sportico.

Freelance journalist and music critic FRED GOODMAN

Freelance journalist and music critic FRED GOODMAN. He is also a former Rolling Stones and Billboard editor and current contributing editor to Microsoft Network's (MSN) Music Central. In a new book, "The Mansion on The Hill" (Times Books), Goodman chronicles how the record industry has changed rock 'n roll from the music of the counterculture to a billion dollar commercial enterprise. Goodman's past publications have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, and Spy. 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., holds a piece of glass that he carries with him as members share their recollections on Jan. 6, 2022 — the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Kildee found the piece of glass following the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Democrats say voters are watching the Jan. 6 hearings, but it's not their top issue

Voters are more concerned with inflation, according to Democrats in competitive races who are trying to gauge how the hearings will affect November's midterms.

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