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Several Democrats considering presidential runs are embracing the idea of guaranteed jobs for every American, an ambitious policy idea that is another sign of top Democrats moving to the left.

The Colorado seventh-grader was unimpressed by the options her parents had to test water in their home. So she created a sensor-based device using chemically treated carbon nanotubes to do it faster.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes Monday on President Trump's pick for secretary of state. But, it's looking like Mike Pompeo will not get the panel's backing.

Congress has been largely absent from the conversation about whether or not to bomb Syria. NPR's Noel King talks with Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland about Syria and Mike Pompeo.

Billy Mitchell, a star of the documentary King of Kong, is fighting a ruling that stripped his records in the arcade classic. "Witnesses, documents, everything will be made available to you," he says.

A new study confirms what some researchers have been saying for decades — standardized tests have little or no value in predicting students' success in college. So why do institutions use them?

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sheri Fink, a health correspondent for The New York Times, about the latest in the investigation of the Florida nursing home where patients died due to loss of air conditioning after Hurricane Irma.

The Vatican has sought to make a papal trip to Iraq, the traditional home of Abraham and now a shrinking Christian minority, since 2000. Pope Francis ended his first day there with religious leaders.

Izzard is the co-writer and director of a new movie, Six Minutes to Midnight, based on the real story of a 1930s British finishing school for the daughters of high-ranking Nazis.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, expected to oversee the U.S. Census Bureau as the next commerce secretary, says she will "rely on the experts" at the agency to ensure the 2020 census is accurate.