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The U.S. recently became the world's biggest producer of crude oil. The ongoing oil boom has transformed Great Plains towns like Watford City, North Dakota.

High-end sweatpants are becoming a staple in an increasing number of men's wardrobes. It's part of a global fashion trend called "athleisure," where gym clothes find their way out of the workout room.

Chronic, unexcused absence from school in Texas often sends students and parents to adult criminal courts.

Putting the eclectic back in alternative, Felix Contreras of Alt.Latino talks with Rachel Martin and shares some 1960s Colombian throwback tunes, Latin jazz and bluegrass mariachi.

In 2001, NPR's Dina Temple-Raston interviewed two men who had been hauling away what was left of the World Trade Center towers. Fifteen years later, she went back to find them.

Eight years after Obama made history as the first African-American president, his legacy is just starting to emerge.

A bidding war was sparked between the United States and Italy over a 2.5-pound truffle, but the winner might have been the city of Philadelphia, which is trying to shine as a gourmet food town.

Postelection polls paint a picture of a nation that's cautiously optimistic about a Trump administration. However, voters are still heavily divided.

In Mexico, 1 in 5 girls marry before they're 18 — some as young as 11. Unlike in the rest of the world, child marriage rates have barely fallen in the past 30 years.

Judd Apatow is one of the directors of a new documentary airing on HBO that follows the recording of a Grammy-nominated album from the North Carolina band.