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Students are building tiny homes for homeless veterans and learning skills they’ll take with them after graduation.

Last year NPR interviewed Heman Bekele about his invention of a soap to fight skin cancer. He was motivated by his childhood in Ethiopia: He saw people working in the sun and thought of health risks.

American cyclist Lael Wilcox rode more than 18,000 miles in 108 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes. She's claiming the record for the fastest woman to ride around the world.

Black Coronado resident Alton Collier drowned in the San Diego Bay nearly 80 years ago. His death now being called a racial terror lynching.

An estimated 21.3 million adult U.S. citizens don't have or can't easily access documents proving their citizenship. The findings raise concerns about requiring proof when registering eligible voters.

How to keep polling places safe is becoming part of regular police training in Georgia.

A nonprofit in California is aiming to remove roadblocks for previously incarcerated firefighters and expand the profession in the process.

Research into some areas of the world that have a lot of centenarians shows that some of those people are no longer alive. Sometimes the fault is bad record-keeping and sometimes it's outright fraud.

The San Diego Rescue Mission agreed to end its alleged ban on emotional support animals in its year-long residential program.

Imagine a world in which your resume relies less on titles or diplomas and acts more like a passport of skills you’ve proven you have.