Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, discovered she was receiving less pay than men who worked ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, it’s all about women in music. Black queer artist Joy Clark tells us about incorporating her ...

Both Republicans and Democrats are trying to marshal Native American voters in Arizona, which could prove decisive to winning ...

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfuly ...

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

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

Craig Breedlove became the first person to drive faster than 500 miles per hour. But his record-breaking run almost ended in ...

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

Europa Clipper will make a six-year journey to Jupiter to study Europa, an icy-surfaced moon that scientists believe has ...

China deployed ships and warplanes in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan Monday, simulating the sealing off of ports in a move that underscores the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait.

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

Bob Woodward speaks to NPR about the revelations in his new book, and recounts how key moments and meetings in recent years ...