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The most contested issues on San Francisco's ballot have to do with housing – something that affects the city's young tech workers.

Eileen Pollack, one of the first women to get a degree in physics from Yale, is author of "The Only Woman in the Room."

The EPA is racing to secure the site of the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado. This summer, the agency accidentally released 3 million gallons of orange wastewater into the Animas River.

As Congress attempts to rewrite the much-maligned federal education law, it's worth exploring its successes and shortcomings in fixing broken schools.

Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Anthony Kuhn about the implications of U.S. naval maneuvers near man-made Chinese islands in the South China Sea.

A truck spilled 200 boxes of nails on I-70 in Missouri; each box contained 2,000 nails. Nobody caught the truck. Who could pursue it with 400,000 nails on the road?

This is the second Doctors Without Borders facility to be hit by airstrikes in a month. The building in Yemen was destroyed but nobody was hurt.

An NPR poll found that a majority of people favor regulation of e-cigarette. Support rose with education. Nearly two-thirds of people with college or graduate degrees supported regulation.

Tea drinking has long been synonymous with female tittle-tattle. Though men drank as much tea and gossiped as avidly as women, it was the latter who got stuck with the bad rap.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. would not hesitate to back its partners using airstrikes or "direct action on the ground."