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A great way for kids to brush up on reading skills? Why, reading to the barber, of course. That's the idea at one barbershop in Ypsilanti, Mich. Oh, and in Houston, Dubuque, Iowa, and Columbus, Ohio.

President Obama with Rose Garden appearance looks for major reset of problem-plagued rollout of his signature health care legislation

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pennsylvania's top elections official, Al Schmidt, about how the commonwealth is preparing for the Election Day vote count.

As the highest-ranked team left standing, it's up to No. 4 seed UConn to restore order in a tournament that's been marked by wild upsets. But it's not the only team with a strong resume.

All five candidates for the Ward 6, position 1, vacancy on the Jonesboro City Council will participate Thursday in a public forum sponsored by the City of…

Authorities now say that all the missing from the collapse in Changsha had been accounted for, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

While Northeast Arkansas has been hit hard in recent weeks with a rise in COVID-19 cases, the Texarkana area in southwest corner of the state has some of the highest 14-day moving average positivity rates.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wheeler, whose son was killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, about families settling a lawsuit against Remington Arms, the company that made the murder weapon.

Commentator and poet Andrei Codrescu offers his unique perspective on world events, free trade, human rights, and consumerism. Ideologies are giving way to the marketplace, he says.

States running their own insurance exchanges instead of relying on the federal site had hoped the marketplaces would become thriving businesses. Now, the states aren't sure what the future holds.