Proposed federal legislation would expand school choice options for families to send their students to private schools or ...

A study analyzed decades of births and found that larger families showed a distinct tendency toward all girls or all boys, ...

NPR newsroom chief Edith Chapin says she's leaving the network. She made the announcement just days after Congress voted to ...

Coca-Cola's move comes a week after President Trump said he had been talking to the soft drink giant about using cane sugar ...

Coca-Cola's move comes a week after President Trump said he had been talking to the soft drink giant about using cane sugar ...

A flight from Minneapolis to Minot {MYE-not}, North Dakota, had a near miss encounter Friday with a military aircraft. A pilot was forced to make an abrupt maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52.

In Maryland, more youth are tried as adults than in almost any other state. State Sen. William Smith is on a mission to change that.

A federal judge in Boston is weighing arguments from both sides in Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration. Harvard claims the government's freezing of research funds is illegal.

The National Archives has published thousands of newly digitized documents relating to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as part of a directive by President Trump.

It was 35 years ago this month that the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. Across the U.S., it's being ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...

The earth doesn't rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a typical 24-hour day.