The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional ...

A USDA program kills wild animals at the request of private livestock owners. NPR obtained exclusive documents to show how ...

After an 11-month wait, giant pandas will populate the zoo once again. A pair of pandas, which left China on FedEx's "Panda ...

The Republican candidate for superintendent of schools in North Carolina calls schools "indoctrination centers" and has a ...

The lawsuits filed Monday accuse the hip-hop mogul of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy.

Kenyan runner Ruth Chepngetich smashed the women’s marathon world record yesterday in Chicago by nearly two minutes.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Carrie Lowry Schuttepelz about her new book The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native In America.

Arizona could go either way this presidential year -- that's what makes it a swing state. But it could also go either way on ...

In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People’s Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the ...

A non profit has trained more than 160,000 veterans as poll workers, in the face of growing threats and skepticism about the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with actor Al Pacino about his new memoir, "Sonny Boy." This news story is funded in large part by ...

A local nonprofit preschool and local lawmakers are pushing to expand options for at-home day cares and ways to tackle both ...