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Black students and students with a disability are twice as likely to be suspended, according to an analysis of federal data for NPR.

The runaway pandemic put more pressure on the U.S. job market last month. Employers shed 140,000 jobs as the unemployment rate held steady at 6.7%.

U.S. Congressman Dr. Ralph Abraham (R-La. 5) looks forward to learning more about how the Republican presidential candidates seek to address border…

While you were watching Frank Ocean build a staircase, NPR Music contributors Bobby Carter and Kiana Fitzgerald were listening to these records.

The automotive industry had a good year in sales. It had an even better year in innovation.

Film buffs tend to agree that the heyday for Western films ended in the '60s. But there’s one spot in southern Arizona where they're still thriving.

In mid-century Philadelphia, dozens of organists made jazz a popular, swinging, danceable contemporary music. The city salutes three such pioneers: Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott and Charles Earland.

A new set of documents from Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito contains his argument that executive-branch officials have immunity when ordering domestic wiretaps in violation of the law. Other documents from his years at the Justice Department reveal a restrictive position on racial discrimination.

There are 35 presidential candidates and 44 parties running in Haiti's first elections since former President Jean Bertrand Aristide's ouster last year.

This #NowPlaying discovery of Zhalarina comes to us from this year's Tiny Desk Contest.