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A last-minute win over Notre Dame keeps the University of Southern California's long unbeaten streak alive. The wild ending was just one of several in a big week of college football. John Feinstein and Steve Inskeep discuss the developments.

U.S. employers added 638,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate dipped to 6.9%. A winter spike in coronavirus infections threatens to further weaken job growth.

From online classes to warnings against xenophobia — and at least one "COVID-cat" — here's how schools are coping with the global health crisis.

But the country with the highest prevalence of modern-day slavery is Mauritania. That's according to a report released Thursday by the Walk Free Foundation, an anti-slavery group. The numbers are in line with previous estimates from the U.N. and the State Department.

Nuon Chea, the No. 2 leader in the genocidal Cambodian regime, and head of state Khieu Samphan are on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1970s.

It's been a record year for video games and their cultural reach. But it's also been a dire one for the workers who make them.

A Norwegian cross-country skier is on track to become the winningest winter Olympian ever. Johannes Klaebo is a talent the likes of which the world has never seen.

House Democrats are ramping up their probes into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. They're also issuing new findings of a pressure campaign by former President Trump to overturn election results.

The Tri-County area just recorded one of its biggest days for COVID-19 vaccinations, as public health officials on Thursday reported more than 2,100…

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to NPR's Ann Powers and Marcus Dowling of The Tennessean about how two country songs sit atop the Billboard Hot 100, and the context for this moment.