On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who ...

Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.

It's a popular rest stop for sea lions, but the docks at the tourist hot spot these days are unusually packed out with the ...

Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal ...

Lawyers for Civil Rights from Boston has filed a complaint with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights on behalf of a student victim of racial harassment and a mock slave auction in the ...

While some colleges resort to arrests and suspensions to clear protests, Brown University has struck a deal with its students. NPR's Juana Summers talks with a student who was in the negotiating room.

Far out in the Atlantic Ocean is a chain of volcanic islands — a province of Portugal. We escape tor a mountain trek among the dairy cows and waterfalls of Sao Miguel island in the Azores.

When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer barriers to studying it. But there will still be some roadblocks for science.

The Center for Financial Literacy and Economic Prosperity at AIC will provide financial advice and literacy for residents in Springfield.

Students in the U.K., France and Mexico have sought to erect what many of them call "solidarity encampments," prompting a variety of responses from university authorities and local law enforcement.

The Sheffield Historical Society unveiled a new headstone for Black Civil War soldier William D. Jones on Wednesday. His ...

In ordinary times, the social media accounts devoted to Wally Gator document the nearly six-foot-long emotional support alligator's adventures around Pennsylvania: visiting nursing homes, splashing ...