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After lifting President Obama to re-election, African-American and Hispanic advocacy groups want him to champion initiatives that will specifically benefit minorities.

The first married gay male couple featured in Jet magazine marks a cultural breakthrough for African-Americans, many say.

The flu is back early this season. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says cases

Justices on the nation's highest court announce they will take up cases involving California's Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, and a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act. Analysts say the court might confine itself to determining jurisdiction, not the merits of the cases' claims.

A California school district is facing a $1 billion repayment on a much smaller loan. It borrowed the money using bonds that have been compared to payday loans — as have more than 200 other districts.

When we go to the movies, we want our heroes big and our villains bigger. But Hollywood actors are only slightly taller, on average, than their fans. NPR critic Bob Mondello takes a look at actors' heights: who's commandingly short, or diminutively tall.

With "classroom flipping," teachers record their classroom lectures online for students to watch at home. Classroom time is then used for problem solving and homework.

A nurse at a London hospital who took a hoax call about Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge was found dead on Friday. Jacintha Saldhana let through a call from an Australian radio station purporting to be the Queen calling about the ailing Duchess.

As its economy prospers, the country has gained an enviable reputation in its often-turbulent West African neighborhood. It's admired for being a relative oasis of stability and peace in the region — despite tensions in the build-up to the vote.

Superstorm Sandy didn't do as much damage as was expected to the nation's employment situation, at least that's what the government's monthly data on the jobs market told us yesterday when it showed the nation's unemployment rate drop to 7.7 percent. Analysts and businesses, however, are already looking past that report to the dangers to jobs from the fiscal cliff.