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Do you know how many businesses there are in Bloomington? The city doesn't either, but that could change soon.The Bloomington City Council votes Monday…

After Helping Hands of Springfield ended its effort to open a shelter and medical clinic for the city’s homeless, some community members say they worry...

One candidate has already emerged in the race to succeed Scott Black on the Bloomington City Council.Kelby Cumpston, a Bloomington native, said Friday he…

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Lulu Garcia-Navarro challenge winner Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minn., with bending the names of states into new words. Shortz is the puzzle editor of The New York Times.

Daniel Libeskind, the architect behind the master plan for rebuilding ground zero, says he sees the site as a cultural response to the attacks of Sept. 11. In coming up with his design, he turned to icons of America -- the Statue of Liberty, the Declaration of Independence and poet Walt Whitman. Libeskind speaks with NPR's Brian Naylor for the final installment of the Intersections series.

The World Cup is three weeks away, but Brazeil is wracked with unrest. Demonstrations there are unified by one theme: anger over public spending on stadiums instead of on services and salaries.

Ruth Gottesman is a professor emerita of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Gottesman's late husband, David, left the money to her upon his death.

Students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine won't have to pay tuition after the school received a $1 billion gift. Ruth Gottesman made the donation using money left to her by her late husband.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine, people are trying to help each other amid attacks from Russia's military. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to resident Oleksandr Honcharov.

Iraq's port city of Basra is a hub of oil wealth but is poor and angry. Protests have continued for weeks over a lack of drinking water and an excess of political corruption — with some blaming Iran.