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A growing number of teenage girls are incarcerated each year. Many have injuries consistent with sexual assault, and up to a third are or have been pregnant. But the care provided in detention is often inadequate for girls because the assessment of their needs misses the mark.

The Republican presidential nominee has a long history of starring in TV commercials, from pizza to computers.

For local political party leaders, the trouble with presidential election years is that they don't happen in a vacuum. While there is no more important...

Researchers report that performance standards set by federal health officials may have led to many patients being dropped from transplant lists without an improvement in survival rates.

Studies suggest that smoking heavily in adolescence may affect brain function in adulthood, but there's a dearth of hard evidence for voters contemplating pot's long-term effects.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Assad blamed the U.S. for the collapse of a fragile truce earlier this week and denied carrying out well-documented human rights abuses.

More than 1 in 5 college students are raising kids, and access to child care is one of their biggest barriers. A new report finds many don't know they can apply for help from federal financial aid.

An amendment to state law overwhelmingly adopted by the Kentucky General Assembly and with near unanimous support from Northern Kentucky legislators has...

NPR goes on the trail with Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand. It's part of a series conducted by the NPR Politics Podcast, Iowa Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio.

The big problem for these booming businesses isn't staff shortages, government regulations or software glitches. It's all about the electrical grid.