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Boston-area Chelsea High School will be testing a new method to promote school attendance: paying students for coming to class. Students will earn $25 for every school quarter of perfect attendance.

The Pest Informer is offering $2,000 to a homeowner who lets it release a hundred cockroaches inside their house. The company is studying how well some new exterminating methods work.

The collection includes several items all with unique designs honoring the first Black jockeys of the Derby.

"Toy Story 5" brought in more than $160 million domestically over its first weekend. The movie, however, raises issues about how much screen time is too much for kids.

Cycling is especially good for people with long-running knee problems or health issues. I've been able to do everything I've wanted to, but a clamor of what-ifs were often in the back of my mind.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand at his defamation trial as he tries to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.

Lawyers for survivors said they won't support the agreement, which they say was negotiated behind closed doors.

Biographer Walter Isaacson draws on more than 40 interviews with the late Apple co-founder in his new book, Steve Jobs. Isaacson describes how Jobs grappled with being adopted, how he became a notoriously demanding boss, and how he fought the cancer that eventually killed him.

Who is dominating the ground game in this presidential election? And will it matter on election day? NPR's Rachel Martin checks in with political strategists Karine Jean-Pierre and Rob Jesmer.

Paramount Global will pay $16 million to settle President Trump's lawsuit over 60 Minutes' interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris — a lawsuit that many legal experts considered spurious.

Citing the high costs associated with Covid illnesses, a growing number of employers are telling employees who decline to be vaccinated to pay up.

With 40 percent of its students at risk of failing, one radical new high school in Washington, D.C., wrestles with whether to lower its own high expectations.

A man in McDonough, Ga., walked into a jewelry store and asked about terms for paying off an engagement ring. That's when another customer stepped in. Ex-NBA star Shaquille O'Neal paid the man's bill.

A pair of Miami architects who infuriated neighbors and drew the scrutiny of county environmental regulators when they chopped down mangroves at their...

An Ohio based company is one of the larger institutional home-buyers that's bought thousands of homes to rent out. Now, it's selling hundreds of homes to pay debt as it fields complaints from renters.

Motorists across the state are now paying an average of $4.20 a gallon.

Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us about two more of her books now coming to English readers.

"I hope that not having to worry about the costs associated with burying their loved ones will help as they move forward and heal," the Grammy-winning rapper said.

A company ordered 18,000 T-shirts with the message: England, World Cup Winners 2022. But England lost to France in the quarterfinals. The T-shirts are now on sale at a third of the original cost.

Pick a day in history — the day Lincoln was shot, the day Merriweather Lewis stood on the divide, any significant moment — and imagine you were there. That's what historians were asked to do in the new book, I Wish I'd Been There. What event would you like to have witnessed?

Although the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist says working in an office is his idea of hell, he admits loving fictional portrayals of the workplace. He talks with Steve Inskeep about some of his favorite literary takes on office life.

There's a question at the heart of Peter Kispert's debut short story collection: What happens when you lie and get away with it? He talks about it with NPR's Ari Shapiro.

Apple TV+'s seven-part series written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón stars Cate Blanchett as a successful documentarian faced with a secret about her past.

Florida may pay for burials of students whose remains were once on the grounds of the now shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.House and Senate…

A judge in Florida ordered R.J. Reynolds to continue paying the state millions of dollars in tobacco settlement money despite selling off major…