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Life tenure was meant to insulate justices from politics, but the clash building between President Obama and the GOP-controlled Senate after Antonin Scalia's death shows how that hasn't panned out.

The number of homeless Californians under age 24 keeps rising, and many aren't getting the physical and mental health care they need, teen advocates say. Mobile clinics are trying to fill the gaps.

A top education analyst says the U.S. probably could get some more people through college by footing the bill, and it would probably pay for itself. But it isn't an open-and-shut case.

China isn't disputing the claim. Its foreign minister, Wang Yi, says the country has lawfully deployed "limited, necessary defense facilities" on the island in the South China Sea.

Support for automatic voter registration — now being considered in about two dozen states — has pretty much broken down along party lines.

In this final year of the Obama administration, Code Switch will investigate "The Obama Effect" on identity and culture.

A landmark ruling by Maryland's highest court affected prisoners convicted of violent crimes before 1981. None of them has re-offended so far. But that's no comfort to angry families of their victims.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology at Pew Research Center, about the general public's opinion on digital privacy and government surveillance.

A new public television documentary takes a look at the life of African American lawyer Carl Maxey and the impact he had on Spokane.The KSPS-produced…

American history repeats itself often enough that we sometimes feel like we are living in an infinite loop. Here is a quiz that explores that notion.