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For most of U.S. history, there was no minimum wage. Politicians passed laws tiptoeing toward one. But the Supreme Court struck those laws down. We look at how the U.S. finally got a minimum wage.

Major League Baseball will launch a series of changes this season to speed up the game.

As the city's demographics change, the role and nature of the bodegas may change with it. But what will bodegas of the future look like? Store owner Ramón Murphy has his own ideas.

After the dinner-time rush, producer Antonia Cereijido spends part of the evening with the lonely cashier who is beloved by all — even protected, when need be.

Bodegas are known for carrying some of the city's unhealthiest junk foods. Our producers taste-test the worst offenders. Blogger Dallas Penn shares his view on the bodega as a legitimate food source.

The teenagers left home on Tuesday and took a flight to Turkey. Authorities suspect they are headed to Syria, lured by Islamic State militants.

Audie Cornish speaks with counterterrorism expert Peter Neumann, who attended the White House extremism summit, on the paths to radicalization in Europe.

A new study published in Science looked at thousands of marine animals over a 540-million-year evolutionary span. Their conclusion: Most of them got larger.

Audie Cornish reviews the week in politics with regular commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss immigration, the summit on countering violent extremism and 2016 contenders.

Negotiations with unions had been stalled for nine months; the dispute has snarled recent traffic at the facilities, which handle $1 trillion in cargo each year.