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Mayor Bill de Blasio created a program for the New York to get people out of shelters quickly. But after looking for months, one single mother finds landlords are not willing to accept the voucher.

Minorities are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math fields. John Dimandja is a Congolese chemist on the faculty of Spelman College who's pointing the way into STEM careers for students of color.

While online shopping grows, traditional retailers are amping up their in-store experiences to draw in customers. But online stores are realizing they have something to gain from physical stores too.

At least ten people were killed and thousands of people were left without power after severe weather passed through the Dallas area on Saturday night.

Robert Spitzer helped create the first set of rigorous standards to identify mental disorders.

Compared with the Great Recession years, 2015 was a fairly tame time. Still, at least five stories had major impacts. They involved everything from crashing oil prices to merging beer companies.

Shakira Crawford, a single mother in New York City, struggles to find a landlord who will accept her city voucher to pay rent.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton to give us the latest on the Chicago police shootings.

With Nigeria's president saying Boko Haram is "technically defeated," we assess its current strength. The Islamist insurgents have lost ground but still terrorize the nation with suicide bombs.

When Jimmy Carter said his advanced melanoma was gone, he credited immunotherapy, treatments that harness the immune system to fight cancer cells. This idea dates back to a 19th-century doctor.