New research shows that humans are not the only species to get jet lag: Some birds appear to experience it too.

The lawsuit by the NAACP, Texas NAACP, and Texas LULAC follows revelations that more than half a million voter registration ...

Best-selling children's author R.J. Palacio talks about her new picture book called The Haunted Playground. It's about what ghosts get up to when they're off the clock.

The state health agency is also processing 64% of food benefits applications in a timely manner — within 30 days — even though the required rate is 95%.

Dolores Huerta was a civil rights icon and labor leader who met countless famous people in her long life. She was also a passionate jazz fan, who found herself speechless when she met Charlie Parker.

Political analysts see the president’s latest trip to Texas as another sign of the importance of Latino voters to the ...

Elizabeth McCracken's connected short stories chronicle a family's encounters with their eldest son's girlfriend and eventual ...

Republicans redrew Congressional district lines to try to tilt the midterms in their favor. But now they are facing expensive ...

What makes special education teaching jobs so hard to fill? NPR set out to find some answers by talking to more than a dozen ...

If you're planning to fly this holiday season, be prepared to pay more than you did last year. The price of jet fuel — one of ...

London is pedestrianizing its version of Fifth Avenue. Cars, taxis, buses and even bicycles are now banned from Oxford Street.

Lee Chang-dong's novelistic drama tells the story of two very different couples who meet during the filming of a documentary.