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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

China deployed ships and warplanes in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan Monday, simulating the sealing off of ...

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

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