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It has been a trying year for Missouri after the shooting death of Michael Brown last August led to a period of unrest. NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Gov. Nixon on how the state is making progress.

Military service does not guarantee U.S. citizenship, which has meant a group of veterans has wound up together just over the border in Tijuana, Mexico, at a refuge they've dubbed "The Bunker."

In a conversation with Steve Inskeep, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman defends the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement involving the U.S. and 11 other Asian-Pacific nations.

Though 39 percent of the state's population is Latino, only 8 percent of its nurses are. Health officials are looking to reduce health disparities by increasing diversity among health professionals.

At this Los Angeles school, STEM and entrepreneurship are as important as reading and math.

Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, was charged with sexually assaulting 13 black women. He was found guilty by an all-white jury and now risks a life sentence in prison.

Melissa Block visits William Faulkner's home: Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Miss. She talks with curator William Griffith about Faulkner's running theme of the South in conflict with itself.

Currently, one-fourth of all fish caught globally goes to produce fishmeal and fish oil for farmed seafood, pigs and chickens. A lot of it is "food grade" and could be feeding the world's hungry.

In a world so divided by cultural and economic warfare, what happens at the European laboratory for particle physics stands out as a celebration of the best we have to offer, says Marcelo Gleiser.

Unfortunately, we are failing in the goal to make our children's world better than our own — and those who deny it won't have to see the consequences of their choices, says blogger Marcelo Gleiser.