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When school test scores are published on real estate web sites, is that an objective data point, or a subtle form of racial steering? Experts say it's complicated.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to singer Melissa Etheridge about her new album, "MEmphis Rock and Soul," a collection of covers from great artists who recorded for Stax Records.

Implants and intrauterine devices are endorsed by pediatricians, OB-GYNs and health officials as a way to help girls and women space their pregnancies and reduce the risk of having a premature baby.

In some areas of Syria, local truces have averted deadly military takeovers. But in a suburb north of Damascus, rebel fighters say their departure resulted more from coercion than negotiation.

With all the recent talk about politics and the judiciary, NPR's Bob Mondello has been thinking about how judges are depicted on screen. He takes us on a tour from Duck Soupto Judgment at Nuremberg.

The National Hockey League is by far the least diverse of the four major pro sports leagues in the U.S. The numbers of minority players is on the rise, but barriers still remain.

This year, during the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, some teachers are placing more emphasis on creating lessons about "how Jews lived than about how they perished."

It took decades, but John Coster-Mullen has pieced together specs for America's first nuclear bombs. Some believe his odyssey says something about North Korea's rapid nuclear progress.

Senate leaders had hoped to pass the funding bill Thursday but were forced to wait after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., objected. His maneuver makes a temporary lapse in funding basically inevitable.

Washington's man in Beijing, Terry Branstad, says he goes way back with China's president.