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SIMON/SPERRY TOP-SIDER: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH BOB MOORE, PRESIDENT OF SPERRY TOP-SIDER, THE FOOTWEAR INVENTED 60 YEARS AGO TO HELP SAILORS GRIP WET DECKS.

In 2010, Mayor Cory Booker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg devised a plan to improve Newark's failing schools. Dale Russakoff recounts their efforts in The Prize.

If you get a high reading at the doctor's office, it may not be definitive. Here's what to know about your risk — and testing your blood pressure at home.

Children with disabilities — estimated at more than 1 million — are shunned in Kenya as curses from God, shut away and largely neglected. Some nonprofits are helping these children and their families. But such programs are just a drop in the ocean given Kenya's paucity of basic human services.

Brazil has more law schools the rest of the world combined and more lawyers per capita than the U.S. But there's a huge legal backlog: One department of five judges is now handling 1.6 million cases.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Elisa Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, about the latest monthly jobs report published Friday.

Rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories were rampant on right-wing social media before verifiable information came out about the gunman who killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school.

For generations, Americans have built wealth by purchase a no-frills starter home. But these entry level homes have become scarce and it's preventing many young people from becoming homeowners.

Kentucky estimates that it will spend $271.6 million in 2019 and 2020 alone to overhaul the state’s Medicaid program, according to a federal audit. That’s…

Already home to one of the most underfunded public pension plans in the nation, Kentucky Retirement Systems is losing further ground through its…