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Drivers may start to see an uptick in gas prices, but the cause won't be OPEC, analysts say. Prices will drift up with a switch to pricier summer blends, not because OPEC gets its act together.

Analysis explores the relationship among college football, binge drinking and sexual violence on campus. It suggests that reports of rape increase 41 percent on college football home games.

The Big Bend area of West Texas is known for its enormous, sparsely populated counties. This can be a problem for county services — whether you're an ordinary citizen or a Supreme Court justice.

The agreement, negotiated by the city of Ferguson, Mo., and the Justice Department, is expected to cost the city more than $2 million per year. The city council altered the plan to reduce that cost.

The Mormon church recently made a policy preventing children of same-sex couples from getting baptized. The move has exposed a rift among Mormons — and made for some difficult decisions.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Marine Le Pen, a French politician who is the president of the far-right National Front, the largest political party in France in 2014.

Tompkins created The North Face and co-founded Esprit, but abandoned the business world to devote himself to environmental causes. He was 72.

More than 21,000 are out of work this year from California's drought, a study says. The majority are farmworkers, and those lucky enough to have a job are often working longer hours for less money.

This month, investigators learned that some peacekeepers were paying girls less than $1 for sex in the Central Africa Republic. It's part of a pattern of abuse. Can the U.N. stop it?

A storm heading up the East Coast is coating roads in ice and blanketing regions in snow, and has shut down Washington, D.C., and several other major cities.