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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Martin Van Der Werf, director of editorial and education policy at Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce, about their new college rankings.

Curtis Kimball has recently begun hosting free pancake parties for all passersby. He says the pandemic has caused a bad vibe all around, and making breakfast for people is a good way to fix it.

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a way of using DNA from elephant tusks to solve poaching mysteries and bring animal traffickers to justice.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of Civil Rights Queen, tells NPR's Ailsa Chang how identity and lived experience loomed large in the confirmation of Constance Baker Motley to the federal bench in 1966.

Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to an annual gathering of the world's top national security officials in Munich, Germany, as leaders work to avert a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The so-called "freedom convoys" are exploiting populist grievances and are amplified by social media and grifters seeking to make a buck.

Is Russia escalating — or de-escalating — its military positions along the borders of Ukraine? There are conflicting claims about what's happening now, and what could come next.

Mexicans voted Sunday in the largest elections the country has every held — in sheer numbers of posts to fill. This has also become one of the most violent campaign seasons.

A reporter for NPR member station KCUR in Kansas City has died after being struck by gunfire. At 24 years old, Aviva Okeson-Haberman was already an accomplished journalist.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says he has ordered a Justice Department civil investigation into the policing practices of Kentucky's Louisville Metro Police Department.