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About 40 percent of U.S. Catholics are foreign-born or the children of immigrants. The change is having profound effects, from reviving dying parishes to shifting the church's geographical center.

Ann Dunham's fight with an insurance company before her death in 1995 is under scrutiny once more. And this time, a few words may tell a different tale.

Longtime political correspondent Ron Fournier is leaving journalism and Washington, D.C., to return to his native Detroit. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to him about his career in political journalism.

A Harvard researcher has traced the roots of our math curriculum back through the centuries. And it hasn't changed much.

Here are the accounts from several former employees and students about what happened behind closed doors at ITT Tech to lure students into expensive loans that rarely paid off.

Paper money is scarce as a result of a government edict. But a couple of major obstacles stand in the way of the cashless society.

Citing his duty to keep promises to service members, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter suspends efforts to make veterans pay back signing bonuses and tuition aid.

Democrats complain there is a lack of evidence present in Republicans' report because Republicans didn't look for it. But it might also not be there because it doesn't exist.

More than 1 million people are without electricity, and areas along the Gulf Coast report severe outages of cellphone service and other communications.

In the past 14 months, more than 13,000 migrants and refugees have been dumped in the Sahara by Algerian authorities, with unknown numbers dying in the desert, The Associated Press says.