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China plans to open its first overseas military base in the African country of Djibouti. It's the same place where the U.S. has had its major African intelligence gathering base for the last 15 years.

How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren't doing much to level the field for poor kids.

Brown University student Sunil Tripathi disappeared just before the Boston Marathon bombing, and was accused of being involved in the attack. A new documentary looks at the effects of the allegation.

Chester Brown's new graphic novel is hard to categorize — a work of lay scholarship about prostitution in the Bible that's simultaneously ideosyncratic, meticulous, imaginative and heretical.

Pati Jinich is a Mexican chef whose life in the U.S. has influenced her cooking. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with her about her latest cookbook, Mexican Today.

Community members rallied Friday morning to reopen a shuttered Wilmington Boys & Girls Club. The Jackson Street Boys & Girls Club has been closed since…

The U.S. is trying to figure out whether, and how, to regulate crops that have had their genes "edited." One example: a mushroom that doesn't brown when cut. It could be the first of many such crops.

Van Houten, now 66, is serving a life sentence for her part in a 1969 string of killings in Los Angeles by the Charles Manson cult. The governor will have final say over whether she is granted parole.

Almost one-quarter of ICU nurses have symptoms of PTSD, studies find, and other nurses are seriously stressed at work, too. Some hospitals are trying to come up with ways to help them cope.

This election season, like many others, has been filled with scenes of presidential candidates enduring protests and heckling during official campaign events. But it seems few candidates, actually handle these moments well. What should a politician do, when they're at risk of losing control to a protester?