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Sigma Alpha Epsilon members have until midnight Tuesday to leave their fraternity's campus house after a video surfaced showing several members singing derogatory racial language.

U.S. public transit is notoriously expensive to build compared to other countries. A $837 million subway station in New York City illustrates why these projects come with such a high price tag.

An Indian textile millionaire attempts to "touch the face of God" by flying a hot-air balloon to the edge of space... 70,000 feet. Vijaypat Singhania, now 67, has set previous records in other aircraft. Philip Reeves reports.

It's unclear what college will look like in the fall, but students and families are having to make decisions now, despite worries about financial aid, travel and a highly contagious disease.

Gay couples can now legally exchange marriage vows in California — and hundreds of weddings are expected Tuesday. The state Supreme Court overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriages. But a ballot initiative in November might stop them.

Automation. Development. Citrus Greening. Florida’s agriculture industry is hurting, and Hurricane Irma is only the most recent blow. During this year's...

Cancer patients increasingly delay or skip taking medication because they can't afford it. New drugs that can cost $100,000 or more a year mean more people suffering "financial toxicity."

Los Angeles can be glamorous, gritty, sprawling and strange. NPR cinephiles discuss the movies that bring the city to life.

When President Bush tapped Harriet Miers for a seat on the Supreme Court, online pundits known as "bloggers" had some of the earliest and strongest reactions. We check in on what these Web pundits have to say about Miers' decision to withdraw her nomination.

Historian Andrew Bacevich writes that the Israel-Hamas War will end in failure for both sides.

A mix of decorated veterans and rising stars won 24 medals for Team USA, 13 of them gold. The last one arrived Sunday, when the U.S. sled hockey team beat Canada to win its fifth straight gold medal.

The number of teenage drivers involved in fatal car crashes has dropped dramatically in the past decade. But in those wrecks, male drivers still outnumber females by more than 2 to 1. For Basil Rynestead of Fauquier County, Va., it's a battle against peer pressure and inexperience to stay safe on the road.

The number of teenage drivers involved in fatal car crashes has dropped dramatically in the past decade. But in those wrecks, male drivers still outnumber females by more than 2 to 1. For Basil Rynestead of Fauquier County, Va., it's a battle against peer pressure and inexperience to stay safe on the road.

Mike Pesca of Slate's podcast The Gist helps NPR's Rachel Martin assess the damage to college football inflicted by a string of scandals at universities around the country.

The theft of data contained on a portable hard drive from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee means that the Social Security numbers of more than 26 million veterans could now be in the hands of criminals. Noah Adams speaks with Mark Rasch, former head of computer crime investigations for the Justice Department, about how thieves and even foreign spies might be able to use that sensitive information.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Member of Parliament Ed Davey about his decision to boycott the state dinner with President Trump.

Millions of Americans provide unpaid care for their loved ones at home. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with reporter Kat McGowan and social worker Dawn Shedrick about the mental health burden of taking this on.

The executive director of World Press Photo said the image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada about the latest efforts in the Senate to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

For the first time in decades, NASCAR's modified pickup trucks take on a street circuit, joining the headliner open-wheel racecars for a rare crossover weekend in downtown St. Petersburg.

Former police captain Eric Adams has won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor with a narrow lead over former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia.

Hundreds of people lined up outside the main courthouse in West Palm Beach late last year, all of them trying to get their suspended driver licenses...

The book covers King's Grand Slam and Wimbledon championships, the "Battle of the Sexes," her activism for women's and LGBTQ rights, as well as some joyous and painful chapters in her personal life.

The latest report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change focuses on how communities can prevent the worst of the climate crisis.

Restaurants in Minneapolis have shifted their business strategies -- and their missions -- around the federal immigration push in the Twin Cities region.