A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

President Trump's face could soon appear on a $250 bill as part of the Trump administration's celebration of the 250th ...

Until now, only Orthodox Jewish men in Israel have been allowed to take exams to become rabbis. After a long campaign, women ...

Affordability has been a politically potent word, but an ill-defined measure of financial pain, often used as a reference to ...

Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts, grew up with tales of local townie Johnny Appleseed. So when he found ...

Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer and adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died last week. Jones helped King write his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He was 95.

Decades of disinvestment in a predominantly Black St. Louis neighborhood left the community especially vulnerable to last year's devastating tornadoes. Now, some worry homeownership rates will drop.

The U.S. plans to try to keep Ebola out by keeping citizens who were potentially exposed in Kenya. This has some in Kenya frustrated and others worried it will deter aid workers from helping.

And for the last 15 years, he’s been on a quest to expand the Family Medical Leave Act to include protected leave to grieve the loss of a child. As he tells Here & Now‘s Robin Young, three days is the ...

President Trump's calls for a gas tax holiday raise a bigger issue: The gas tax is no longer covering the cost of the nation's highways anyway, and the problem will only get worse.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with filmmaker Spike Lee about his excitement that his favorite basketball team, the New York Knicks, making it to the NBA finals.

The Haitian community in Massachusetts is excited about the country participating in a World Cup for the first time since 1974. But pricey tickets and restrictive immigration policies are deterrents.