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Disillusionment with limited social progress and free-market reforms swept Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva to power in 2002. But Brazil's first working-class president, a wild favorite with poorer voters, is taking a more moderate path toward change.

Harvard announces it will end its early admissions program, a move that is sure to send ripples through the world of elite colleges and universities -- and through high schools where competition to get into the schools is fierce.

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is about to reach Victoria Crater. Scientists are excited about exploring the crater, where satellite pictures indicate more than 100 feet of exposed bedrock. By studying the layers of bedrock, researchers hope to learn how it was shaped -- and maybe answer the question of whether liquid water once covered the Martian surface.

Two propositions on California’s 2006 general election ballot deal with transportation infrastructure. Both opponents and supporters debate the issues behind each proposition.

SDG&E says that a new transmission line from Imperial County across Anza-Borrego Desert through rural areas of North San Diego County may be the answer to the region's need to increase renewable energ

Venezuela, led by fiery, leftist president Hugo Chavez, is at the forefront of a political swing to the left that is sweeping much of Latin America. With its vast oil revenues, Venezuela carries a lot of clout in the region, and it has made alliances with nations that are most at odds with the United States.

The dogs days of late summer releases may be upon us but not everything coming out at the moment is bad. Take the independent film

A controversial plan to store tons of nuclear waste on a Utah Indian reservation seems to have been defeated. For 10 years, the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians has fought for permits for a temporary repository for spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants.

A new investigation of the Broadcasting Board of Governors finds that its chairman repeatedly violated federal statutes. The chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, has been in hot water before as head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but he tells NPR it's all politics.

The House voted Thursday to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Only a few U.S. plants slaughter horses. The meat is sold as a delicacy in Europe and Asia. Opponents say the practice is barbaric, while supporters say it's actually the most humane way to deal with unwanted horses.