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You want to love Thanksgiving food so badly. Here are ways to make it happen.

Diesel trucks used to be known for belching black, polluting exhaust. Manufacturers have worked to shed that image with cleaner engines. A small group of diesel owners goes in the opposite direction.

A man who spent more than two years in jail on gun charges in Champaign County has been released after a judge says that the state didn't bring him to…

The University of Illinois took an unusual step this year to increase its in-state enrollment, accepting students with lower entrance-exam scores to…

Athletes, artists and activists crowd the list of winners of the nation's highest civilian honor. Before they get their medals Tuesday, get to know them — in sight and sound.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to retired Gen. Carter Ham, former head of U.S. Africa Command, about U.S. military efforts to counter jihadist groups in Africa.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Jackie Biskupski, mayor-elect of Salt Lake City. She is the first openly gay mayor of the city, and one of the first openly gay politicians in the state of Utah.

Congress appears ready to overhaul the nation's most important federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Civil rights groups, though, worry that some changes will hurt poor and minority children.

World leaders are set to meet in Paris, trying to agree on how to combat climate change. Also attending will be California Gov. Jerry Brown, who is spearheading his own international climate movement.

It's the 11th trip of his papacy and the most dangerous. The pope will visit Kenya, Uganda and Central African Republic, a nation split apart by bloody conflict between Muslims and Christians.