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A new film tells the stories of three women who made incalculable contributions to the space program: engineer Mary Jackson, mathematician Katherine Johnson and NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan.

According to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 58 percent of Americans celebrating the holiday dread having to talk politics around the dinner table this holiday, an uptick from one year ago.

More than 100 researchers spent five years poring over documents to come up with data about how much is spent — and on what.

Less than two months after reported allegations, Wynn is unemployed and facing public shame and an uncertain future.

Fatmeh is one of hundreds of thousands of children who have fled Syria with their families. In Lebanon, she works in the fields up to 14 hours a day, clinging to her dream of going to college.

Rachel Martin talks to Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia about whether his party considers the president's proposal to end the shutdown a serious offer. NPR's Mara Liasson weighs in on the issue.

More than $7 billion in drugs, vaccines and supplies are stashed in warehouses to be tapped in case of a pandemic or an attack with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. NPR got a peek at one.

The NPR politics team brings us analysis on the vote in the Ohio and North Carolina primary contests. Polls are also closing in Florida, Missouri and Illinois.

(This post was last updated at 1:02 p.m. ET.) A nationwide manhunt for the suspects of France's deadliest terrorist attack in more than 50 years ended in…

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with musician David Schelzel about The Ocean Blue's new album, Kings and Queens/Knaves and Thieves.