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About half of Americans own stock, though most stocks are owned by the wealthiest. For many, a booming stock market does not offer direct benefits.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with George Parker, political editor with the Financial Times, about the year ahead in Brexit plans, as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.

To Americans abroad, comfort food so often looks like junk food. Shops in London are filled with items from Hershey's, Aunt Jemima and Betty Crocker. But Kellogg's Pop-Tarts seem to rule them all.

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, December 14th: U.S. Army Corps drops appeal over dredging controversy; Bill expanding computer science for...

The forces aligned with Iraq's government allegedly used crude, imprecise weapons that caused an unnecessary level of civilian casualties in the fight against ISIS, the U.K.-based rights group says.

The tragedy in Virginia has sparked compelling writing around the country, and around the Internet. Here's our roundup.

Theresa May favors remaining in the European Union, but says she respects the will of the voters and will carry out the difficult negotiations of extracting the U.K. from the European grouping.

Vote totals confirm that the U.K. will be leaving the European Union. Reporter Lauren Frayer, NPR's John Ydstie and Suzanne Lynch of The Irish Times report on the outcome of Thursday's referendum.

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gave K-12 students the go-ahead to play sports this fall, he left the final decision up to each school district. The Akron Public Schools Board of Education originally decided against letting students play, but reversed its decision a week later. One of the rationales was that for some of these student-athletes, getting to play is an issue of equity.

The Labour party and rebels in the conservative party seized control of the parliamentary agenda to try and block Boris Johnson from crashing the U.K. out of the E.U. with no withdrawal agreement.