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New Hanover County Smart Start received Endowment funding to conduct a local qualitative survey of families who have not enrolled their children in pre-K, to identify the barriers they face in registering their children.

Thomas' April 23 death at age 71 brings to a close one of the most significant avant-garde experiments ever conducted within the confines of pop music. Rock critic Ken Tucker reflects on his legacy.

NPR's Michel Martin asks the heads of two women-owned businesses how they are navigating the swing in tariff levels on China.

The Israeli military expanded its ground offensive in Gaza, and killed at least 80 Palestinians in a new wave of strikes Thursday. Hamas fired its first rockets since Israel broke a recent ceasefire.

About 250 Filipinos live on Thitu Island, the largest and most inhabited island of the Spratlys, in the South China Sea. But Chinese ships are never far away.

At First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, a therapist was fielding 10 calls a week from parents of teens who needed mental health help. Now the church is part of a national pilot intervention and study to address suicide risk among Black teens.

Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled.

Why the Chinese government is angry over a deal involving a prominent Hong Kong billionaire's business empire and the Panama Canal.

A wider disparity between major conferences and lesser-known conferences has lent itself to fewer close games in the early rounds of both the men's and women's NCAA tournaments.

While some property owners try to turn a profit from the street artist's murals, others have carried the intense and costly responsibility of protecting them.