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The top four vote-getters in the special primary advance to a special election, set for Aug. 16, in which ranked choice voting will be used.

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the NBA draft and some big trades in the league.

Psychiatric patients have longer ER stays than patients with physical problems, research shows, and have trouble finding inpatient care and follow-up treatment. Kids can be among the hardest hit.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Jean-Martin Bauer, the U.N.'s World Food Program Haiti representative, about what the country needs from the world to address the acute hunger.

In strange and historic times, how can teachers talk to students about events like the attack on the U.S. Capitol? How do you talk about events that even adults have trouble finding words for?

Graduate students at the University of California Santa Cruz are on strike. Teaching assistants are calling for higher pay to cope with the city's high cost of living.

The Committee on House Administration questioned U.S. Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton about the role of the Capitol Police on Jan. 6.

California's Bay Area is home to a large number of Afghans, many of whom moved there after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. They have a variety of reactions to the announced U.S. pullout from Afghanistan.

The college savings program helps families pay for higher education.

The first-ever Bay Area Book Crawl is in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day on April 25. Here's how to get your "passport" to possibly win a prize.

On Monday, all of Florida will be in phase one of the state’s reopening plan. As the Sunshine State inches back from pandemic shutdowns, a vital part of...

Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods.

Wisconsin's $4.5 billion deal with Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn is the largest a state has ever signed with a foreign company. Are such tax-incentive deals effective ways to gain much-needed jobs?

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff earned $1,655,563 in 2021 and paid $523,371 — a federal income tax rate of 31.6% — their tax filings show.

Authorities in Buffalo say the alleged gunman had threatened a shooting at his school in 2021. He was then sent for a mental health evaluation that lasted a day and a half.

The federal complaint gives a new account of Payton Gendron's movements in the store. It also alleges that he said "Sorry" to at least one of his white victims.

The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to lift part of an order that bars the government from using classified materials seized from Mar-A-Lago in its investigation.

The "United We Stand" summit brought together experts on hate-based violence and honored communities that have survived attacks.

A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in Northern California was arrested before dawn Saturday as he was apparently searching for another victim, police said.

Eighty percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, according to WHO, a sign the outbreak is spreading faster than health officials can track.

George Zimmerman didn't invoke the stand your ground law in his trial, but in Florida and elsewhere similar self-defense measures are expected to come under heightened scrutiny.

The Democrat's proposal seeks to address the country's racial wealth, opportunity and jobs gaps.

The U.S. House has passed a bill that could help protect the 2030 census and other future head counts from political interference. But it's not clear how much support the bill has in the Senate.

At first, Lisa Halliday's novel seems too familiar: It's about a young would-be writer who has an affair with a famous older man. But partway through, it turns into something else, something new.

Aid for Israel became more urgent after the weekend's attack, House Speaker Mike Johnson said. After months of delays, he is also putting forward a bill that provide additional aid to Ukraine.