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Students have waited months to find out how much financial aid they will receive for school. Delays and errors by the Department of Education mean they'll be waiting a while longer.

The Supreme Court has limited the ability of the lower courts to curtail the power of the president. We look at the court's end-of-term blockbuster decisions, as well as their implications.

The Labor Department delivers its final jobs report of 2023 Friday morning. The job market held up well last year, despite rising interest rates.

Ahead of FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, we take stock of how the landscape of the Russia investigation has shifted since his last appearance.

Health care consistently polls as the top issue Iowa voters care about. In the western part of the state, one doctor faces growing debt as he sometimes treats patients without coverage for free.

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds 70% of Americans say things have become too unaffordable and have a dim outlook on the economy and President Trump's handling of it.

A new study finds that women are excelling in the book business. Yet, they still lag in other creative industries. We search for an explanation why.

Dr. Janet Woodcock, an administrative veteran of the Food and Drug Administration since the 1980s, has been acting director of the agency since January. Why is the permanent job so hard to fill?

NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a tour with LA Times columnist Patt Morrison of Los Angeles' top makeout spots, which offer a vantage point into the city's last century of development and urban sprawl.

When we asked readers to name their favorite comics, many classic, hugely influential newspaper strips got nudged out of the running. We thought we'd give them a shout-out.

The CIA Director and the Director of National Intelligence testified that they did not share classified information in a messaging group chat that discussed the U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen.

The revolving door at No. 10 Downing Street keeps turning. Steve Bannon faces sentencing for defying the Jan. 6 committee's subpoena. Interest rates throw cold water on the once-hot housing market.

People in China protest the government's COVID lockdown. Democrats rush to pass bills before Republicans take over the House. Voting starts in Georgia in a runoff for the final unresolved Senate seat.

President-elect Joe Biden picked House Ways and Means Committee trade lawyer Katherine Tai as the next U.S. trade representative. Tai is the first woman of color picked as the top trade official.

Furniture tip-overs kill multiple children every year. A nonprofit group tested a range of dressers and found there was no way for consumers to tell by looking whether a dresser would be stable.

Researchers are suggesting that flawed construction -- not storm surges -- likely caused key floodwalls around New Orleans to fail. They say the waters of Lake Pontchartrain never got high enough to rise above the walls and erode their foundations, the early explanation for the levee collapses.

President Trump is set to meet with House Republicans Tuesday. The meeting comes a day after administration officials briefed top lawmakers on the weekend operation in Venezuela.

There's a puzzling split between how consumers overall feel about the economy and how they're acting, how much they are spending overall. Normally spending and feelings go together. Not right now.

The Epstein scandal has spread to the Olympic movement. The top organizer of the Los Angeles Summer Games faces calls to step down because of his past contacts with Epstein collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to a new court filing, Massachusetts Air National Guard superiors allegedly knew months before his arrest that that airman Jack Teixeira was improperly accessing top secret information.

Nearly a decade after the Great Recession, Florida may finally restore one of its main programs that aids students headed to college.The state Legislature…

Puerto Rico's governor is resisting calls to resign despite growing protests against his government. The demands follow the release of private text messages between him and top advisers.

Australian researchers say they are concerned about the future of scientific collaboration with the United States after its sudden withdrawal of funding for some of the country's top universities.

School vouchers are a top priority for Gov. Abbott in Texas, where the legislature is poised to pass a $1 billion plan. Democrats say the money would be better used to strengthen public schools.

Some 15 million people are expected to attend the Olympic games in Paris, which are now in their second week. Keeping them safe is a top priority, so the French government has brought in soldiers.