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LGBTQ social media users encounter hate speech and harassment at higher rates than all other identity groups at 64%, according to GLAAD's inaugural social media index report.

Illinois’ economy was humming along last winter, a few years removed from the state’s two-year budget impasse in which Illinois’ unpaid bill backlog climbed to nearly $17 billion, and finally experiencing the kind of growth that had eluded the state for years after the Great Recession.

Howard is the nation's only historically Black university with a classics department, but it is now moving to dissolve the program after a three-year review of the school's curriculum.

East Peoria Community High School librarian Brooke Nelson recently penned Birthmarks: True Stories from Real Mothers. It's a book inspired by her own struggles with postpartum depression.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports that after lumbering along for over six months, the labor dispute between National Basketball Association players and owners suddenly has a sense of urgency.

Robert talks with Karen Overall, a professor of Behavioral Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. They discuss the approval of a drug called Clomicalm.

Mitski's music is dark and even scary, but glimmers of beauty peek through. Watch the singer perform three of her songs in the NPR Music offices.

If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion.

Peoria Police are investigating an overnight murder in South Peoria.

David Weinberger says that in business, rewards are given to workers who rise to the level of everybody else's incompetence. If you're real good, you end up becoming what you really detest - the boss.