Half of Ohio's school districts are sparring with a Republican state lawmaker who’s proposed a bill to withhold state funding from them if they sue the state over that funding.
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NATO members have launched a new Arctic initiative after President Trump's threats to take over Greenland.
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The recent deep freeze across much of the U.S. has created the best opportunity in decades to sail ice boats across frozen bays and rivers — including Chesapeake Bay.
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At the Illinois gathering of the Future City competition, 16 middle school teams presented their concepts for cutting-edge cities.
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This week the Ghanian musician Ebo Taylor died at 90 years old. While he was not well known in the U.S. he was a star in Africa, and a defining force in highlife music.
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Great Parks has started construction on a composting facility in Winton Woods that will play a key role in the biochar production process.
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Iranians living in Turkey are hearing chilling stories from relatives at home — and receiving death threats themselves.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson about the FAA's temporary closure of airspace over the city, and how it was communicated to city leaders.
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Ukrainians are dismayed after skeleton sled racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from the Olympics for his helmet decorated in honor of war victims.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, German Marshall Fund president, ahead of the Munich Security Conference.
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Korea's Gaon Choi, 17, rebounded from a hard fall to win gold — and end her role model's historic bid for three in a row in the Winter Olympic halfpipe.