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  • Looking Ahead At The Next Top Tech IPOs
    Every year, research firm CB Insights offers up a report on the fastest growing and most highly valued private companies in technology — basically, the ones most likely to go public. Audie Cornish speaks with Anand Sanwal, CB Insights' CEO, for a look at the top tech IPO's expected in 2014.
  • Rep. Christopher Turner sponsored a bill to update funding levels for TOPS scholarships.
    Louisiana Legislature advances TOPS funding bill
    The House Education Committee on Wednesday advanced a bill to update funding for TOPS college scholarships and create a new award for the highest-scoring students.
  • Representative Ray Garofalo (R-Chalmette) presented his bill to the House Education committee Thursday, March 5th. It would require students on a TOPS scholarship who fail to maintain GPA requirements or drop out of college repay their scholarship.
    Potential Changes To TOPS Pass House Committee
    Bills that would raise standards for TOPS scholarship students narrowly passed their first test Thursday in the House Education committee.
  • House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., joined by Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., at right, speaks on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, July 10, during a news conference on a bill to combat veteran suicides. Miller introduced the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act to combat veteran suicide. (Evan Vucci/AP)
    Veterans Say Suicide Is Their Top Concern
    That's according to a survey released today by the group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).
  • A female African lion, said to be similar to those discovered dead, is pictured in 2013.
    6 Lions Found Dead In Ugandan National Park
    Six lions were found dead and dismembered in a suspected poisoning in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. The park is home to hundreds of bird species and nearly 100 types of mammals.
  • USC, Oklahoma Battle for Top College Honors
    NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Pete Fiutak of CollegeFootballNews.com about Tuesday's Orange Bowl game between the USC Trojans and Oklahoma Sooners. USC is the top-ranked team in the nation, and the Sooners are ranked second -- and the winner of the game will be considered America's best college team.
  • Abu Ghraib Report Faults Top Leadership
    A commission on Abu Ghraib prison abuses, headed by former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, finds fault throughout the chain of military command and in Washington. Top leaders are criticized for failing to provide adequate resources to the prison. Hear Schlesinger and NPR's Robert Siegel.
  • A social media ban in Australia for children under 16 is first in the world
    A social media ban for children under 16 will be the first law in the world to levy fines on TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram for allowing youth accounts.
  • Senate Republicans Have Blocked Jan. 6 Commission
    Senate Republicans blocked a plan to move forward on legislation Friday to establish a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
  • Dark blue: It's going to take a foot or more of snow to close schools. Green: Any snow's going to shut things down.
    It's True: Snowiest Places Are Least Likely To Close Schools
    Crunching some data, a Reddit user has come up with a map that sure seems to confirm what many have been saying: It doesn't doesn't take much, if any, snow to close schools in much of the South. But up North? A foot or more is going to have to fall before the kids get to stay home.
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