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American farmers receive billions of dollars each year in "conservation payments" that are intended to protect the environment. Some environmentalists say the payments deserve scrutiny — and reform.

This story is part of the special series United And Divided, which explores the links and rifts between rural and urban America.Schools in rural school…

If approved by regulators and Virgin America's shareholders, the combined airline will become the fifth-largest U.S. carrier.

The University of Kansas and a child advocacy group have developed an online tool that helps social workers match adoptive families with children in…

Rachel Martin talks to Randall Rothenberg of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade group that represents Facebook, Twitter, Google and includes NPR, about social media and government oversight.

Saturday is European Privacy and Data Protection Day, which will be marked by events across the European Union. It caps off an eventful week with Google announcing controversial new privacy policies, and the EU outlining tough new privacy recommendations it wants to make law.

This week, Argentina's Senate rejected a bill to legalize abortion. The decision came as a letdown for feminist organizations that conducted their battle largely on social media.

Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is investing $300 million in Twitter. The man Time magazine calls the "Arabian Warren Buffett" says he looks to invest in, "promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact," like Twitter. Prince Alwaleed has been ranked the richest Arab.

A lack of meat in grocery store chains, due in part to coronavirus-related slowdowns and closures of meatpacking plants, is creating an opportunity for local food producers.

Inmates from the Cook County jail in Chicago just competed in the first international online chess tournament of its kind. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with their coach, Mikhail Korenman.