Search results for

After months of ethics scandals and investigations, the embattled Environmental Protection Agency head has resigned, the president said Thursday.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Amanda Sloat, senior director for Europe at the National Security Council, about the situation in Ukraine.

When homeowners can't, or won't, pay their property taxes, local governments auction off the right to pay those taxes to private companies. Housing advocates say this creates a burden for homeowners.

The University of Vermont banned the sale of bottled water on its campus in 2013 to cut down on single-use bottles in the waste stream. But the number of plastic, single-use bottles being shipped to campus went up, and students ended up using more single-use bottles and drinking less healthy beverages out of them. Now the university is trying to figure out how to balance sustainability and nutrition in on-campus beverage sales.

The arrangement circumvented a process that could have automatically preserved Clinton's email communications in government archives.

Authorities are using DNA samples to identify and account for those still missing. Here's what we know about the victims who have been identified so far.

As the social media platform struggles to find a way forward, NPR surveys key moments in its history.

For more than a year, YouTube has been trying to launch a music streaming service. It has reached licensing agreements with the major labels, but has put independents on notice.

Preventing hate speech in Jacksonville; a new film gives voice to the children of Holocaust survivors; new guidance issued for treating children with obesity; and some good news from around town to start out your Wednesday.

Apple must now pay $400 million to e-book purchasers. The case's roots date back at least six years, when Apple sold its first iPad models and sought to compete with books giant Amazon.