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It's easy for parents and students to get lost in the college loan and debt jungle. Yet another plan aimed at helping students reduce debt burden takes effect this month. Will it help?

In 2014, Flint switched to a new water source. Shortly after that, it was discovered that children had elevated blood lead levels. David Greene talks to Mayor Karen Weaver about the emergency order.

Someone — anonymously — went into two Wal-Mart and paid more than $100,000 — moving everything off layaway. Meaning, gifts some customers were trying to buy, are now theirs.

An analysis of TV shows finds that fictional characters getting abortions are better off than the average American who has an abortion, and are also less likely to already be raising children.

The federal government will be funded until Sept. 30, 2016, in a deal that includes hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks.

Winter travelers need to think about measles, mumps, polio and bug repellents.

The California-based health care provider plans to enroll its first students in 2019. It's the latest of 20 U.S. medical schools opened in the past decade to boost the number of primary care doctors.

"Evangelical" is one of the most poorly defined terms in the U.S. political conversation.

The U.N. Security Council approved a U.S.-Russia resolution outlining a strategy to defeat ISIS and end the conflict in Syria. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Unions are virtually non-existent in the northern Mexico factories around Juarez. But now some 300 workers are trying to unionize to push for higher wages and other benefits.