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This week the Education Department began investigating Yale and seven other universities involved in the college admissions scandal. The department wants…

The Time Magazine Person of the Year is an outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's regime. She accuses the government of furthering a 'descent to tyranny.'

We'll head out west today with the rollicking Portrait of a Frontier Town by Don Gillis.

Attorney General William Barr got into a "shouting match" with Utah Sen. Mike Lee over Jessie Liu's bid for associate attorney general, sources told NPR. Liu is the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.

French film director Agnès Varda was a pioneer during the new-wave arts revolution of the 1950s and '60s. She kept making important films for the next five decades.

Deep brain stimulation offers relief from some neurological problems and is being tested for mood disorders. But the treatment — an implant in the brain — raises ethical questions.

A school should be defined by its commitment to great teaching and social equity, says the outgoing president of LaGuardia Community College.

Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels borrows from the story of his older brother, who died of cancer. He told Fresh Air in 2018 that the book went through a rewrite after the 2016 election.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Chris Calabrese of the Center for Democracy and Technology about reports that the U.S. sees a national security threat in a Chinese company owning the dating app Grindr.

Mohamed Noor, a former Minneapolis police officer, fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault. She apparently tapped on the cruiser and he fired through the door.