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At issue in the case before the Supreme Court is the way at least a dozen states handle the sale of homes to pay off overdue taxes.

Former Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins gives a Baltic perspective on the U.S. policy shift on Ukraine.

Who are the people who write the words and shape the sound you hear each weekend morning? Read about them.

Authors Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery discuss their new book, "Policing Black Bodies". From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the country’s formative volunteer organizations known as VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America. For…

All this week, NPR's Farai Chideya has been on the road traveling from California to Georgia. Just before she wraps up her trip, she stops at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama. Lawrence Pijeaux, the center's president and CEO, gives a tour.

Vice presidential candidates Joseph Biden and Sarah Palin met Thursday night in St. Louis for their only debate of the presidential campaign. They clashed on various topics including tax policy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and energy.

Somali pirates have seized their biggest prize to date — a supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of Saudi oil. Meanwhile, the U.S.-backed Somali president warns his government is losing its hold on power.

This Thanksgiving, the tastes of New Orleans will be missing or difficult to find for families now living far from their favorite Cajun or Creole spices. That's the case for a couple who evacuated from New Orleans and are spending Thanksgiving in Mount Rainier, Md.

Former political director to Bernie Sanders, Analilia Mejia, says discussing national issues with voters gave her an edge in the Democratic House primary for New Jersey's U.S. House special election.