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Native Americans make up less than 1 percent of students in college. Many say they feel invisible, without access to elite campuses. One program helps them leverage their heritage and identity.

It's one of those diseases that doesn't get a lot of attention: a strain of tuberculosis contracted from animals and responsible for 13,000 deaths a year.

The actor hosted two big benefits for the Democratic front-runner this weekend. Clinton is raising money that can go to candidates at all levels, while Sanders' donations go solely to his campaign.

An annuity can be a smart retirement investment for many people, providing a steady income for the rest of your life. But they can be overpriced, opaque and hard to understand. Here's the 411.

Sleep researchers say about 30 percent of employees at big firms are so tired they're making as many mistakes as if they were coming to work drunk. Some offices now have "napping pods."

The president's press secretary said a plan the White House is pushing would mean taxing goods from Mexico 20 percent to pay for the wall. That would mean American consumers would foot the bill.

Toyota announced this year that it's backing the return of the iBOT, which went out of production in 2009. Inventor Dean Kamen says a reboot would include improvements using the latest technology.

Kimberly Grayson took her high schoolers to the African American history museum in D.C. When students pressed their white teachers to take the same trip, a revised history curriculum quickly followed.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Yasmine Shamma about her son, Nadim Shamma-Sourgen. He dictates his poems because he can't really read and write yet.

Countries are imposing unprecedented social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But, is there a point when the cost to society outweighs the benefits?