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The dining room, with the dining table at its center, didn't catch on in America before the late 1700s. These rooms — and the family meals held in them — became a place to cultivate social values.

Sue Klebold says she wishes she'd asked her son Dylan "the kinds of questions that would've encouraged him to open up." Published 17 years after the massacre, her new memoir is A Mother's Reckoning.

Justice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme Court's Great Hall on Friday. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was the last to receive the honor in 2005.

Why do we work? Most of us would say we work for financial reasons. Since we spend almost 1/3 of our lives at work, shouldn’t there be more to work than…

The deployment of anti-aircraft missiles escalates tensions in the region. The U.S. insists that the airspace and waters of the region remain open to international navigation.

A top education analyst says the U.S. probably could get some more people through college by footing the bill, and it would probably pay for itself. But it isn't an open-and-shut case.

The Justice Department wants Apple to help investigators get around iPhone security features so that the FBI can access data belonging to one of the San Bernardino killers. Apple is firmly opposed.

Ex-chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers are blasting an analysis from UMass-Amherst professor Gerald Friedman that Bernie Sanders' camp has praised recently. Do their opinions matter to voters?

It may seem a little strange the All Writs Act of 1789 has been applied to a privacy and encryption case in 2016. NPR has a look at this 227-year-old law.

Iran applauded the effort led by Saudi Arabia and Russia to freeze oil production at January levels. But it would not commit itself to participating in plans to cap oil output to drive up prices.