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This week, NPR looks at four seemingly intractable problems that await the 45th president: stagnant wages, violent extremism, cybersecurity and the federal debt.

NYU has announced that when looking at applications, it will initially overlook the criminal record of prospective students.

It's a worldwide chain that lets "the blind become our eyes." But there's a difference in the new Nairobi branch: The servers themselves had never eaten in a restaurant before.

Over 750 people are dead in India — mostly in the South — as an intense heat wave grips the country.

If you're looking for light fun read for an upcoming vacation, the short story collection "Spoiled Brats" comes out in paperback today.

The tropical virus has killed a man who returned to New Jersey from Liberia this month. But chances that he could have spread the disease are remote.

Perhaps no one did more to show us the human toll of the Great Depression than Lange, who was born on this day in 1895. Her photos of farm workers and others have become iconic of the era.

In this Vermont kindergarten, every Monday is "Forest Monday" a day that gets students out of the classroom and into nature.

The thieves used the data to file fraudulent tax returns. The IRS commissioner said less than $50 million had been successfully claimed from the agency.

Many of the students at Mount Sinai's medical school in New York majored in English or history, and never took the MCAT. The school sees that diversity among its students as a great strength.