The Wingspan Initiative helps with living and child care expenses while single parents are in school full-time.
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Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.
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House Republicans are seeking testimony as part of their investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Clintons say they've already provided in writing what little they know.
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Leaders from Denmark and Greenland will meet with top U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday to try to find a way out of a crisis caused by President Trump repeated demands to annex Greenland.
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President Trump calls on Iranians to keep protesting, but the regime is cracking down hard and the death toll is rising.
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NPR Music's search for the next great undiscovered artist to play a Tiny Desk concert kicks off today. Host and series producer Bobby Carter shares what the judges are looking for in entries.
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President Trump has been trying to bully the Federal Reserve into cutting interest rates. It's a gambit that could lead to more inflation.
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New eateries are popping up in Gaza after months of famine, but it's pricey and many people still rely on aid to survive.
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Every year, the MIT Technology Review publishes a list of 10 breakthroughs poised to take off in the coming year. Amy Nordrum, executive editor of operations there, talks through this year's entries.
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Federal officials say a company that operates hundreds of landing pages for AI answers is running an operation that has duped thousands of users, who were unable to stop costly monthly charges.
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As immigration enforcement actions have ramped up in Minnesota, people of faith have been at the forefront of the response to ICE detentions and the killing of Renee Macklin Good by a federal agent.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da Vinci's DNA.
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Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu about what this means.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks to author Rosie Storey about an exploration of love, loss, and lies in the new novel Dandelion is Dead.
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Inflation didn't get worse in December. But it didn't get better. Prices were up 2.7% a year ago. A drop in gasoline prices was more than offset by rising grocery and electricity bills.