Louise Schiavone

For audiences everywhere, the Nutcracker is synonymous with the pageantry of winter.

And as NPR's Anastasia Tsoukas reports, it's the production that helps many American ballet companies stay in business.

The nation's largest bourbon distiller is pausing production at one of its facilities as of January 1st.

Jim Beam's flagship distillery in Claremont, Kentucky, is halting operations to let the market catch up with an oversupply of bourbon.

Jim Beam is owned by Japan-based Suntory Holdings.

The company's larger distilling operation elsewhere in Kentucky will continue percolating the Beam bourbon stills.

The wine and spirits business has been struggling with declining alcohol consumption.

I'm Louise Schiavone and PR News.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.

President Trump is announcing the Navy will be building new battleships with what he says will be 100 times more power than that of the biggest of any warship ever built in the U.S.

The president made the announcement at his resort in Mar-a-Lago.

The program, he says, will begin with construction of two battleships and expand to roughly two dozen

President says they will be Trump-class ships.

It's part of a strategy the president says to create a, quote, golden fleet.

The Trump administration is recalling dozens of career ambassadors.

Officials say the president wants diplomats who will advance his agenda, and that's what Foreign Service officers sign up to do.

NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.

21 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

As NPR's Rafael Nam reports, the lawsuit seeks to address an unusual stance that the CFPB has been adopted.

Wall Street, the Dow closed up 227 at 48,362.