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As Congress debates a rewrite of No Child Left Behind, we look at one school in Durham, N.C. Watts Elementary wasn't just restructured as a result of the law, it was completely reimagined.

With the U.S. economy showing signs of slowing, Federal Reserve policymakers are divided over how to respond.

When the World Cup champions visited the White House, Obama praised the team for changing stereotypes of women and girls in sports, and for inspiring "millions of boys to look at girls differently."

Across the U.S., the Muslim population is booming, which spells opportunity for a new generation of Muslim entrepreneurs.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Ronal Serpas, former police chief in New Orleans and Nashville, about FBI Director James Comey's remarks on the "Ferguson Effect" and the rise in crime in U.S. cities.

Inmates and their relatives pay steep phone bills to keep in touch, and prison phone companies rake in billions. The Federal Communications Commission…

The company beat out a team formed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin to win the highly classified $55 billion project, according to the Associated Press.

Students at the University of Colorado say they plan to protest their exclusion from the GOP debate on their campus.

The New York Mets have long been the underdog baseball team — even in their own city. But the team and its fans are now emerging from the shadow of that other New York baseball team, the Yankees. They're savoring the chance to win the hearts of more New Yorkers with a World Series win.

More than 50 years ago, Groce City college fired Larra Gara from his teaching job. They said he was a communist. Decades later, a researcher found Gara's case and persuaded the college to apologize.