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Faced with financial issues, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater closed its Chelsea location in 2017.

Comedy Community Mourns The 'End Of An Era' As UCB Closes New York Locations

Upright Citizens Brigade, the improv mainstay and launchpad for many comics, will no longer have a physical space in New York City. Despite UCB's flaws, "people are grieving," a former UCBer says.

Students walk outside Detroit's Pershing High School in 2017. A lawsuit claims the state of Michigan failed to provide the city's students with the most fundamental of skills: the ability to read.

Court Rules Detroit Students Have Constitutional Right To An Education

The students' lawyers argued that literacy is a fundamental skill to living in a democracy, and thus protected by the U.S. Constitution. In a landmark decision, a federal appeals court agreed.

The Internal Revenue Service headquarters was photographed on April 27, 2020 in the Federal Triangle section of Washington, DC.

Coronavirus Payments To Poor Are Vulnerable To Fraud

The IRS system for distributing Coronavirus relief payments is susceptible to fraud, because the payments of some Americans can be obtained with information easily available to criminals online.

Until a few weeks ago, Will Thompson was running audiovisual services for big tech industry conferences.

Expecting A Baby During Coronavirus: Gender Reveal Just Isn't The Same

Restrictions at local hospitals meant Will Thompson hasn't been able to accompany his wife to her prenatal doctor's visits, including one where they expected to learn their baby's gender.

Banks reported struggling to get through to the Small Business Administration on Monday to enter loan application information to the newly replenished small business relief program.

Small Business Loans Site Crashes On First Day Of Reopening

Bankers tell NPR that the SBA's portal wouldn't allow them to enter the loan application information that is needed to access the PPP program.

Nevada resident Derek Reich lost his income as a freelance cameraman. He says his lender told him he'd have to make up any missed payments in a giant balloon payment he can't afford. Then he was told that if he didn't qualify for a better option, "you're going into foreclosure." So Reich says he's going to spend his 401(k) retirement money rather than get the help that Congress wanted him to have.

3.4 Million Homeowners Skip Payments. But Many Are Scared, Say Congress Needs To Act

Homeowners say that to catch up on payments, lenders demand big balloon payments they can't afford. Advocates want Congress to mandate that missed payments simply be added to the end of the loan term.

American Poet Leah Naomi Green Releases Her First Book

Leah Naomi Green is the 2019 winner of the Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets. Part of the honor is getting her first book published. The More Extravagant Feast came out on April 7.

Coronavirus Reading: Jia Tolentino Suggests A Book

The quarantine has given people an opportunity to catch up on their readings. The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino is using this time to read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

The oil tanker Pegasus Voyager sits off the coast as a man sits and watches in a park in Long Beach, Calif., on April 22. Many vessels are parked between Long Beach and the San Francisco Bay Area with nowhere to go due to lack of demand and nowhere to store the oil.

Dozens Of Oil Tankers Wait Off California's Coast As The Pandemic Dents Demand

About three dozen tankers are anchored from Los Angeles and Long Beach up to San Francisco Bay, turning into floating storage for crude oil that is in short demand because of the coronavirus.

Tips For Living Alone During The Pandemic

According to U.S. Census data, more than 36 million Americans live by themselves. A few chime in with suggestions for weathering the pandemic alone.

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