A fire at a bio lab in Georgia recently is raising questions about whether a chemical that escaped and forced evacuations should face tougher regulations from the EPA.

Israel plans to respond after four Israeli soldiers were killed in the attack. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Daniel Byman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies what form that could take.

Nearly a fifth of Utah public school students are Hispanic. An outreach effort to Spanish-speaking parents in one district has boosted their involvement, which now surpasses that of English speakers.

Latinas are about 16% of the workforce, a crucial pillar of the U.S. economy. Yet, they feel they don’t reap the same benefits other workers enjoy, nor get the recognition they deserve. In Michigan, ...

More than 4,500 square miles of ocean will soon be protected by the federal government off the Central California coast. The ...

Canada celebrates its Thanksgiving holiday in mid-October, and that's just one of many differences with its American counterpart.