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Activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai spoke passionately of the importance of equal access to education, especially for young girls, and how it plays a major role in eradicating poverty.

Artist Rogan Brown peers into the invisible worlds of microbes, then uses their forms as the inspiration for large paper sculptures that seem at once familiar and profoundly alien.

Two women hostages held in the jungle by Colombian rebels for more than five years are safe today after being released in a deal brokered by the president of Venezuela.

Verizon is announcing a deal to buy Yahoo's Internet business on Monday. The telecom giant is eyeing Yahoo's content — and more opportunities to sell ads on it.

A new Pew Research Center study finds that a third of Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's supporters are most strongly motivated by opposition to Trump and Clinton.

Most people who drop out of college drop out the first year, and, so far, interventions haven't done much to change that. Now, campuses are coming together to try something new.

A new lawsuit brought by 44 states and Puerto Rico alleges an "industrywide" conspiracy by generic drug manufacturers to collude on prices and divide up the market.

In an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 50% say they or someone in their household has lost hours or a job due to the pandemic. They also say their governor is doing a better job than the president is.

The data from China offer insights into the way different age groups are affected after being infected.

In central Appalachia, one in five working coal miners with at least 25 years experience underground now suffers from the deadly disease black lung, according to a new study.