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New research may be changing the debate over how we think about screen time for young children.

In August, a couple in Jackman, Maine, created a scholarship for a student willing to train as a plumber and come back to work in the rural town. Months later, no student has taken the plunge.

The second part of our December live show from the Sixth And I synagogue brings quizzes with some of our pals and questions from our audience.

The operation in tribal North Waziristan involved airstrikes and ground forces, the Pakistan military says.

Chris Rock talks about finding the line between funny and "too far"; Geoff Nunberg declares "God view" as the word of the year; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson talks about her memoir.

Only 99 Ebola cases were reported worldwide last week. That's the lowest weekly count since June. But getting down to zero cases is still a long way off.

The 43 missing students were kidnapped in Iguala, Guererro. Suspects in the disappearance say the students were killed and their bodies burned in a large dump.

The #NPRparty makes it super easy to follow the elections that got Americans to the polls (and on social media).

NPR photographer David Gilkey has photographed in extreme situations — from the surge in Afghanistan, to bombings in Gaza, to the tsunami in Japan, but nothing could have prepared him for what he saw in the village of Barangay 68 in Tacloban City, Philippines.

The anti-poverty group Oxfam is asking Pepsi's shareholders to approve a resolution that, if passed, would force the company to disclose its sugar suppliers and investigate whether those suppliers are implicated in "land grabs" that unfairly take land from the poor.