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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is fending off a series of ethics investigations, amid lukewarm support from the White House.

College waitlists are growing. For many students, they offer hope of admission. That's not always the case.

"It's basically a coin flip as to whether you'll do better than your parents," a Stanford economist says.

It has to do with language learning, according to a new study from Duke University.

Preliminary charges center on allegations the center-right presidential nominee paid his wife and children for fake jobs with public funds. Once the favorite, Fillon has faltered under the scandal.

As the new secretary of state starts a six-day sweep through East Asia, he heads into a region full of challenges, both old and new.

The sale at Christie's of Salvator Mundi, which dates from around 1500, easily tops previous records set in 2015 for a Picasso sold at auction and a Willem de Kooning sold privately.

Top Justice Department officials raised the prospect they could loosen policies on issuing subpoenas to news organizations to stop the flow of information.

The Trump administration is in Davos, Switzerland to deliver an "America First" message to the globally-minded government and business leaders at the World Economic Forum. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with economist Nariman Behravesh, who is in Davos.

It "was not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political," the agency's acting chief scientist wrote.