Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson among the three economists awarded for research into how poor institutions affect countries' ...

Some western Massachusetts farmers say the apple bounty is so good this year they're giving away thousands of pounds of the ...

The 30-year-old Kenyan became the first woman to break a marathon time of 2 hours 10 minutes, and cut almost 2 minutes off ...

A man is in custody after deputies found guns in his car near the rally site of former President Donald Trump in Coachella, ...

A new voter ID law, the latest on the Washington and Sagamore bridges, off-shore wind farms and more on this week's regional ...

Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A ...

Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the ...

The ubiquitous convenience store owed its recent revenue drops to inflation, declining cigarette sales and a shift in palates ...

Ludtke filed suit against Major League Baseball to get full access to team's clubhouses — just like her male counterparts — ...

So a growing number of meteorologists are calling for a different way of categorizing and quantifying the destructiveness of ...

In Whitehall, New York, the annual Sasquatch Festival and Calling Contest draws visitors from around the country and the ...

John Kordalewski, this week's nominee for the Joy Beat, started the Makanda Project to bring world-class jazz to the ...