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The Dallas Mavericks have received the top pick in the next NBA Draft ... which has led to questions after the team traded away its star to the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this year.

As more schools band together to commit to recruiting and graduating 50,000 more low-income students, four college presidents discuss what it will take to get there.

Workers are demanding higher wages and more staffing to ease their workload. The union says that cuts to staffing and guest services that many hotels made during the COVID-19 pandemic were never restored.

Sometimes, you want to leave the world behind and escape into a book — but if you're in the mood for a good disaster story, we've got a selection of summer reads that are just the right kind of grim.

FEMA is finally preparing to open the first mobile home park built for survivors of the deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California history.

For a long time, researchers have believed Black people would not participate in clinical trials because of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. They were wrong. We risk repeating the same mistake with the coronavirus vaccine.

Make some new musical discoveries with this month's Station Breaks, in which NPR Member Stations handpick a diverse mix of exciting new releases.

California’s top health official acknowledged in a coronavirus briefing Tuesday that the state’s order banning outdoor dining and closing playgrounds in certain regions is an effort to encourage people to stay home and not a “comment on the relative safety” of eating on patios or using a seesaw. Dr. Mark Ghaly said coronavirus transmission is … Continue reading California Top Health Official Says Stricter Orders Not About ‘Relative Safety’ of Banned Activities →

A lot of the rap that felt worth listening to in 2019 was hard to listen to — full of sonic dissonance and emotional distance, and pregnant with a particularly black depiction of dystopia.

The Swedish hard-rock band Ghost has never topped the Billboard 200 albums chart — until this week. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" holds at No. 1 for an 11th week, tying a record for hip-hop songs.