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The budget that Gov. Bruce Rauner proposed this week recommends a 16 percent cut to higher education. This year's proposed cut sounds gentler than the 32…

"We need real talks about peace, not just talks about talks," says U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.

These days women are portrayed as heroes running through woods, flashing swords, guns or light sabers, showing men how to be accurate shots, how to be…

If you’re outside looking up and see the sun partially covered by clouds, are you more likely to call the day partly sunny or partly cloudy? Optimists are…

A long line of mourners queued up Friday to pay their respects to the late Supreme Court justice, whose body is lying in repose.

Iran is historically known for its pistachios. With sanctions against Iran lifted, its growers are free to sell in the U.S. Iranian nuts haven't flooded the U.S. yet — but that could soon change.

Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss their Oscar-nominated film. Anomalisa's stop-motion "communicates fragility and humanity and brokenness," Kaufman says. Originally broadcast Dec. 22, 2015.

NPR's Tamara Keith has the latest results from today's Nevada Democratic caucuses.

A fungal disease can rob people with HIV of sight and hearing, cause painful headaches, even kill them. A test could detect the disease early enough to wipe it out. So why isn't the test in wide use?

What was wizardry in the world of Harry Potter has become reality in the hands of Duke University senior Trey Bagley. Meet the real-life Weasley Clock inventor, when he talks to NPR's Rachel Martin.