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The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a six-year extension of a program to combat malaria around the globe.

President Obama issued an executive order last year to shield some undocumented immigrants from deportation. But a federal judge has issued an injunction…

The man who helped establish the current home of Western Michigan University’s Lee Honors College has died. A news release from the university says Carl…

The Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines — 3 to 2 — to approve new net neutrality rules that would regulate access to the Internet more like a public utility.

Arab youths dissatisfied with the present are looking longingly to the past, and Islam's glory days. That, and a dearth of opportunities, says Jordanian politician Rula Alhroob, make ISIS attractive.

The group has been meeting for months to find compromise on whether local governments should be given more say when drilling is proposed near residential and urban areas.

Survivors Annie Clark and Andrea Pino brought a Title IX complaint against the University of North Carolina. "This is not about UNC," Clark says. "We're not doing this to vilify our institution."

Alan Cheuse reviews a new experimental novel by Tom McCarthy called Satin Island.

A New Orleans attorney has turned an antebellum plantation into a new museum. You won't find hoop skirts and mint juleps but stark relics at a site devoted entirely to a realistic look at slavery.

Leonard Nimoy died Friday at the age of 83. NPR's Scott Simon remembers the man who was best known for his role as Spock.