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Jake Thomas Patterson allegedly told police he decided to abduct Jayme after spotting her board a school bus. Authorities say he controlled her with threats of "bad things."

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston resulted in a lawsuit that used expert witnesses for the first time and was the catalyst for new regulations governing architects and engineers.

Commutes for Americans are getting longer. Nowhere is that more true than near big cities with expensive housing. One Bay area woman commutes 90 miles one way for jobs in the city.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with David Cooper, senior economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, about minimum wage increases in 2019.

See which albums and EPs fellow NPR music fans loved the most this year, from Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computerto Kids See Ghosts, Pusha-T, Father John Misty, Lucy Dacus and more.

An extensive NPR andFrontline investigation finds that government data showed that thousands of miners were exposed to toxic dust. And despite multiple warnings, regulators didn't act to stop it.

Scholars at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum say that mass killings follow predictable patterns. They're using a computer model to track where the next genocide is likely to occur.

With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, 67 percent of voters say the president is a factor in their vote, far higher than for former President Obama in 2014 when Democrats lost the Senate.

How do you measure the value of something that’s free? It’s a challenge for economists who study the economic impact of the Internet revolution. In this...

Thousands of high school graduates in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District could receive scholarships for college or vocational training thanks to a multi-million dollar program announced Friday.