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

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

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

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

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

The Kentucky Board of Education has passed a resolution supporting public dollars for public education. The statement, ...

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

The private prison company CoreCivic operates four prisons in Tennessee, a service for which the state pays over $200 million ...

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

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

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 ...