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People who use wheelchairs say simple repairs can take months to complete and replacement parts can be very expensive. In part, they blame two private equity firms that control most of the market.

People from outside prison walls came to Utah's state penitentiary to join inmates in a half-marathon organized by a running club in an effort to help with rehabilitation and not just punishment.

The Supreme Court handed a victory to the maker of the popular weed killer Roundup and made it harder for people to sue over potentially harmful pesticides.

NPR speaks with people in Yemen and in aid groups who say the fighting is displacing families to areas without enough aid to support them.

One of the biggest fields ever will assemble in Hopkinton, Mass., for the 118th Boston Marathon on Monday morning.

Our weather is too warm for Milwaukee County to open the outdoor ice rink at Red Arrow Park downtown, yet the county is keeping open four golf courses…

The financial markets in this country rebounded somewhat yesterday before falling once again. The now four-day trend was brought on, in part by turmoil in…

Part church, part street market, part three-ring circus -- celebrating 100 years of spectacle at Times Square. NPR's Robert Smith offers a birthday tribute.

In 1994, Rwanda was torn by murderous tribal violence. The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda, from American RadioWorks, focuses on those who sought to avert the mass slaughter.

Congress has many rules and precedents that are documented on paper. But what about those traditions and folkways that persist unwritten?