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France is sending a mini Statue of Liberty to the U.S. It will stand across from the original Lady Liberty through the Independence Day holiday before being transported to the French Embassy in D.C.

Preschool, child care investments top list of proposed spending increases

This semester, Sacramento State University launched a new textbook rental program. There are limited titles available, but the program is helping some students save serious cash.

In the mid-19th century, more than a million Irish fled the potato famine in search of a better life. But the fate they met aboard so-called "coffin ships" headed to the New World was often as bad as what they left behind. Not so for those lucky enough to find their way onto one ship. Kathryn Miles tells the story in her book, All Standing.

NPR's summer road trip series continues with a tribute to two influential Washington, D.C., figures from the early 1900s. A 12-foot fountain in the nation's capital honors the friends, who took an ill-fated trip in 1912 aboard a brand-new ocean liner called the Titantic. Emily Friedman reports.

In 1983, Utah was the first state to lower its blood alcohol limit from 0.10 to 0.08. Now it is lowering its blood alcohol limit again, to .05 percent, just in time for New Year's Eve.

The U.S. has deployed surveillance aircraft to Nigeria in the search for the more than 250 schoolgirls still missing. Imagery gathered by the aircraft and satellites will be shared with the Nigerian government.

Organized pressure groups, not individual parents, are leading the fight to remove books from shelves, according to a new report from the American Library Association.

NASA still is not sure when two astronauts might come home in Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft.

Program is a Pritzker initiative, aimed at making Illinois colleges more affordable