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A new study says several states are doing the right things to get students to show up to school regularly.

Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable.

The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with defendants who have cognitive disabilities. The office helps these people access treatment.

Not counting his golf outings in Virginia, President Trump spent all or part of 14 days outside of Washington, D.C. during the first 31 days of the shutdown.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto beat Toronto for the second time in a week, as the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers held off the Blue Jays 3-1 on Friday night to force the World Series to a decisive Game 7.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sen. Lisa Murkowski about the possible loss of SNAP benefits due to the shutdown.

Driving through barricades and burned banks in Douala: Cameroon's disputed election sparks a showdown with its young generation.

On the eve of federal SNAP benefits hitting people's accounts, Louisiana is jumping in to fill the gap for the 1 in 5 state residents who use the program, but only for some of them.

Public health leaders and researchers are kicking off a meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss how to counter what they see as dangerous ideas coming from the Make America Healthy Again movement.

A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to consider whether to pay at least partial SNAP food benefits -- even though millions of people will be without aid starting tomorrow.