Three Indiana school districts are asking voters to approve or renew a local property tax referendum on the November ballot to increase or maintain funding for teacher pay and student academics.
Indiana’s economic development strategy seems likely to shift next year, regardless of who wins the race for governor.
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China has banned transnational adoption, ending more-than three decades during which more than 160,000 children were adopted abroad. Adoptees say they have conflicted feelings about the ban.
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After Hurricane Andrew decimated parts of south Florida in 1992, state officials mandated sweeping building code revisions for new construction. Those changes continue to limit damage from storms now.
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Experts say smugglers are treating migrants more harshly and bringing them on paths that could be more dangerous in extreme summer temperatures.
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Canada expelled India’s top diplomat in the country and five others over last year's killing of a Sikh activist in British Columbia. India rejected the charges and said it would expel Canadian envoys.
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Destroying the roads would be in line with Kim Jong Un's push to cut off ties with South Korea and abandon the decades-long objective to seek a peaceful unification.
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Vice President Harris wants voters to pay more attention when Trump talks about "the enemy within." On Monday, she played a highlight reel to paint him as “increasingly unstable and unhinged.”
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After an 11-month wait, giant pandas will populate the zoo once again. A pair of pandas, which left China on FedEx's "Panda Express" cargo jet, are expected to arrive in the D.C. area on Tuesday.
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The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations.
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A USDA program kills wild animals at the request of private livestock owners. NPR obtained exclusive documents to show how its employees manage wildlife.
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Pollsters try to create an accurate model of the electorate. But that model can change abruptly, like when Vice President Harris became the Democratic nominee.
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The Republican candidate for superintendent of schools in North Carolina calls schools "indoctrination centers" and has a shot at a victory.
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The lawsuits filed Monday accuse the hip-hop mogul of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy.
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Kenyan runner Ruth Chepngetich smashed the women’s marathon world record yesterday in Chicago by nearly two minutes.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Carrie Lowry Schuttepelz about her new book The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native In America.
Latest Podcasts
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It’s the summer of 1976 in Wabash, Indiana - Nick Schenkel has a review of an Indiana farm memoir “Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird: A Memoir” by Doug Crandell.
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Author Craig Martin takes us on a romp through 1800's Lafayette in the book "Percy Hare and the Girl in the Game - An early legend of the Lafayette town." Nick Schenkel has the review.