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Administrators say that the Virginia institution has been grappling with financial troubles for decades. And they blame an increasing lack of interest in single-sex education.

Anthropologist Barbara J. King reviews a new book that suggests domesticating the wolf gave early modern humans an extra edge in hunting that pushed Neanderthals to extinction.

The son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson will serve out the remainder of his sentence for misappropriating campaign funds for personal use at a halfway house in Washington, D.C.

French officials believe the co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that went down in the Alps intentionally crashed the plane. Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's Eleanor Beardsley for the latest.

Thousands of people form all backgrounds and races descended on the Alabama Capitol Wednesday afternoon. The crowd estimated at 3,000 or more gathered at…

Strolling through the board games of yesteryear we find some that succeeded and some that faded away.

The last English king to die in battle was finally given a burial fit for a king — some 530 years after he was killed.

A single genetic mutation might decide who ends up in bed with the sniffles and who heads to the hospital, because it shuts down immune system molecules called interferons.

Among other things, the controversial new law would allow owners of businesses in the state to deny services to same-sex couples.

One of the revolution's core promises was an egalitarian society. But as Cuba opens up, one of the unintended consequences may be more inequality.