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Isaac Royall, Jr. was a slave owner and son of a slave trader who played a key role in creating Harvard Law School.

At many elite college campuses, the two industries recruit more college seniors than almost any other industry.

The Pitkin County Commissioners gave initial support last week for an updated Emergency Operations Plan. It details how the county is more ready than ever…

Also this week: How classic video games are teaching computers to learn.

It is illegal to leave a car idling in Aspen for more than five minutes, as is leaving a running car unattended even for a moment. Drivers are especially…

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have found a field of dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye. The footprints were made by giant dinosaurs 50 feet long that weighed nearly 20 tons.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg about the shooting in San Bernardino, and whether this latest round of mass shootings may represent a tipping point for Americans and guns.

Former congressman Bob Inglis became passionate about climate change while in Congress. He tells NPR's Scott Simon there's a way to make fixing climate change palatable to his party: make it about the power of free enterprise.

The Thirty Million Word Initiative, created by University of Chicago Hospital pediatric surgeon Dana Suskind, attempts to close the achievement gap between poorer and more affluent students.

Private groups keeping tabs have wildly different numbers, ranging from 353 to four. There's no consensus on a definition, and advocates point to the data that supports their arguments.