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More than 126,000 homes in the Houston area were damaged after Hurricane Harvey. Debris from the storm is estimated to fill space equivalent to 25 college football stadiums and take months to haul away.

The week in education, from student aid rules to HBCUs.

As Hispanic Heritage Month gets under way, it's worth noting that the idea of people from the Latin American diaspora referring to themselves as 'Hispanic' or 'Latino' or 'Latinx' is a fairly new one.

Amid hurricanes and working with Democrats to keep the government open and raise the nation's debt limit, Trump's approval rating has stopped its decline and has even rebounded slightly.

Those relying on the federal government's safety net are grandmothers, the kid next door, your supermarket cashier — maybe even you.

Police found the bodies of Orouba Barakat and her daughter, Halla, a U.S. citizen, in their Istanbul apartment. Their deaths have left family and the wider dispersed Syrian community in fear.

Researchers used an innovative method to come up with the data for the years from 2000 to 2015. What's behind the encouraging trend?

The quake occurred close to the site where the country detonated a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.

The National Weather Service warned locals to evacuate, but with most communications down, it remained unclear how many would heed the alerts.

All year, NPR member station reporters around the country have asked people how they would be affected by proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Here are five of those stories.