Betsy Lerner's debut novel weaves together the ordinary and the erratic to tell the story of a middle-class Jewish family ...

The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their ...

Texas has argued it faces unnecessary costs under the program associated with educating and providing health care to DACA ...

Asian Americans are the fastest growing-voting group in the country. That means parties are courting them in tight races in ...

With only weeks to a divisive election it can be hard to talk politics. Polarization can damage our relationships and our ...

Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A ...

Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the ...

HARDANGERSFJORD, NORWAY - Jørgen Wengaard steers around the rocky islands of a fjord, his boat cutting through the water’s ...

We check in with Black voters who weren't excited about President Biden's campaign to see what they think of Vice President Harris on the trail.

Indigenous People's Day is becoming a more widely recognized holiday around the country. Two educators share how they approach teaching people about the significance of the day.

Israel plans to respond after four Israeli soldiers were killed in the attack. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Daniel Byman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies what form that could take.

Husband and wife researchers Salim Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim were named winners of the Lasker Award for public service in recognition for their groundbreaking research on HIV.