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Nic Wallenda, who grew up in the family of famous Flying Wallendas, has gotten special permission from New York officials to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls. He says his dream is "to walk down through that mist and walk back out."

A community college in northern Illinois is getting industry recognition for its program related to wind energy. Highland Community College in Freeport…

They show a rise in wealth connected to his work as a corporate consultant and media commentator.

Santorum's returns may allow his critics, both those aligned with Mitt Romney, his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination and those who aren't, to attack the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania for not giving as much to charity as many others at his income level.

The highly-anticipated gathering of flu experts has been described as a fact-finding session that will focus on understanding how bird flu studies done at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin were performed and overseen by the relevant authorities.

What's the difference between primaries and caucuses, and why do states have different systems for choosing delegates? Political scientist Josh Putnam explains how delegates are picked, and how the process changed after the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

NPR's Andy Carvin covered the uprising in Libya virtually, but now he'll see the country and its people in person.

China's economy sailed through the financial crisis unscathed — at least in the short run.

The United States and five other nations are embarking on a new program to limit pollutants connected to global warming. But they're not targeting carbon dioxide with this effort — instead, they're looking at methane gas, and soot.

Slogans for Las Vegas restaurant the Heart Attack Grill include "Taste worth dying for." But the burger joint's shtick of serving "quadruple bypass" burgers collided with reality Saturday, when a patron suffered a heart attack while eating at the restaurant.