Students at Springfield’s Westport School have some new writing skills after a recent author visit. Jarrett Lerner of ...

A coalition of organizations in Missouri is working to try to overturn House Bill 1, which created a new Congressional map ...

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly ...

With start of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and release of hostages and prisoners, here are some key figures related to the Gaza ...

The festival began in 1966 as a marching band competition, and since then, volunteers have worked to organize the event that ...

Many of the headlines marking the passing of actress Diane Keaton this weekend have mentioned Annie Hall, the film that earned her an Oscar and made her a distinctively haphazard fashion icon. But ...

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is optimistic about the country’s economy. Alfredo Musalem spoke ...

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

James Franklin has been fired as the coach of Penn State's football team. He'll get a buyout of almost $50 million, reflecting a trend of coaches getting large golden parachutes.

Jimmy Kimmel's return to airwaves might just point the way forward for late night TV to prove its relevance to American ...

What needs to happen next for Gaza to start rebuilding after the war? NPR's Michel Martin asks Jack Lew, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Biden.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday Scott Horsley is NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent. He reports on ups and downs in the national economy ...