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The biggest venture capital fund in history was a key backer of WeWork and Uber — and it transformed the way startups work.

Thursday marks the first day of a teacher strike in Chicago. The walkouts have left parents in the nation's third largest district scrambling to find child care.

The senators urged the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to do more to examine problems with a troubled loan forgiveness program, citing an investigative story by NPR this week.

The death of a 25-year-old K Pop singer and actress in South Korea has led to soul searching in the country about online bullying.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Brett McGurk, former special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIL, about the current situation in Syria.

Taika Waititi writes, directs — and stars, as a 10-year-old boy's imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler — in this very silly film about a very serious subject.

An environmental group sued e-cigarette maker Juul and achieved a settlement that will restrict the company's marketing practices in several ways. Plus, the latest on vaping illnesses from the CDC.

Leaders of five Charlotte-area colleges and universities met at Queens University on Wednesday to talk about why higher education costs so much, how to…

It looks like a big breakthrough in Britain's long process to leave the European Union, but the saga doesn't end here.

As the country's 14th secretary of energy, Perry leads an agency he once vowed to eliminate. He has emerged as a central figure in the impeachment inquiry of Trump.

In a speech blending humor with a serious message, the former secretary of defense also quoted a warning by Lincoln against a leader "unfettered by conscience, precedent or decency."

Auto workers at General Motors have a tentative agreement, but it doesn't mean their strike is over.

We look at the status of the agreement the U.S. helped to broker in Turkey and what this deal means for the Kurds.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe about the latest developments surrounding Brexit and its potential impact on the Irish economy.

Security forces came under attack and were forced to withdraw after they sought to arrest Ovidio Guzmán López, who is thought to have been running the Sinaloa cartel since his father's arrest in 2014.

Guy Bryant has fostered dozens of children over the past 12 years. At StoryCorps, he told one of his foster kids that he wants them to pass on what they've learned from him.

Firefighters responding to a minor accident in Utah found a screaming 2-year-old girl. She calmed down though when she painted the nails of firefighters.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois about the latest developments in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world's first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, working to replace a broken part of the…

Showrunner Damon Lindelof's updated twist on a classic graphic novel that turned superheroes into anti-heroes is a bold, compelling HBO revamp centered on racial tensions.