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Financial aid offer letters look vastly different from one school to the next, and it isn't always clear how much students will have to pay. "It's really the Wild West," one expert says.

Megan Abbott's new novel centers on a two young women whose high school friendship has morphed into professional rivalry. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Give Me Your Hand a "spectacular thriller."

The FBI released an application it made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to collect the communications of a onetime Trump campaign adviser and it offers a sliver of new understanding to the Russia imbroglio.

Pianist and composer Thomas currently directs the San Francisco Symphony. He'll receive a Kennedy Center award for lifetime artistic achievement on Dec. 8. Originally broadcast in 1995 and 2012.

The house Alan Moore was born in was torn down in 1969 — along with most of the rest of his neighborhood. But in his new novel, Jerusalem, the legendary comics creator brings it all back to life.

The self-described "lifelong character actor" plays an alcoholic sidekick in the film Can You Ever Forgive Me? Through Grant is allergic to alcohol, he grew up in Swaziland with an alcoholic father.

Nearly three years after Ireland voted to legalize same-sex marriage, the country is due to hold another referendum this spring on whether to legalize abortion.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with New York Times sports reporter Tariq Panja about the kickoff of the 2018 World Cup that began Thursday in Russia.

Not enough people know how a bill becomes a law and other aspects of civic life. More than half the states are trying to fix that. See how your state is doing and take our quiz.

In Dallas the effort to take down the city's Confederate memorials hit an unexpected snag after three of the four African-American city council members voted to keep the main memorial up.

Alex Bowen of West Columbia said he didn't want to rouse the worker and got to work himself, documenting the caper in a series of selfies posted to social media.

In the town of Oakdale, La., the government shutdown has far-reaching effects, from restaurants to barber shops, all the way up to the mayor's office.