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With a scarcity of jobs during the Depression, more than a million people of Mexican descent were sent to Mexico. Author Francisco Balderrama estimates that 60 percent were American citizens.

How much is sustainable food driving customers and food industry leaders? Sweetgreen is a telling example.

Some students complained that they felt like they were in a zoo when visitors to Harvard Yard took photographs of them through classroom windows.

Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen is working to put the anti-overdose medication naloxone into the hands of as many heroin users as possible. But the price of the antidote has nearly doubled.

A survey of homeless shelters shows 90 percent of them are denying services because they’re getting no state funding during a political feud.The Policy…

How do families decide what kind of college to attend: Private? Public? Community college? Three college students explain why they went for the expensive, private option: Columbia, NYU and Georgetown.

Energy provider Exelon is delaying a decision on whether to close the company’s Quad Cities nuclear power plant. That means it and the company's Byron…

Montana has one of the heaviest lifts of any state to comply with the EPA's plan to reduce carbon emissions. But the state is also rich in renewable energy, and the regulations may be a boon to some.

With his four-game suspension overturned, embattled New England quarterback Tom Brady will be under center for tonight's game as the Patriots take on the Steelers.

A deputy county coroner tells NPR that professor Eric Schmidt was shot in the head. Lamb is also a suspect in a woman's death.