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Skate boards took their final turns in one of the nation's best known skate parks this weekend. "Love Park" in Philadelphia is being bulldozed in preparation for a new park with less concrete and more plantings. Skateboarders said Love Park was ideal for their sport, so good they kept going even when the city banned them. Philly relented and gave them the weekend for some final runs before the demolition began.

The Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia has the potential to upend the 2016 election. NPR takes a look at what signal the president might send with his choice to succeed Scalia, and how the public might react to Republican leaders vowing to not to confirm anyone.

A Harvard faculty member argues in his new book that averages tell us nothing useful about individuals. That has big implications for schools.

Celebrity news website TMZ operates a lot like an intelligence agency, according to a piece in The New Yorker. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Nicholas Schmidle about TMZ's reporting tactics.

The group fell under suspicion for "carrying out media activities" without registering their intentions with the proper authorities.

"I still stand on my belief that I'm against same sex marriage because of what the Bible says, but I'm not condemning LGBT," the famous boxer says, after a TV interview went viral.

Autism treatment specialists say that by focusing rigidly on scientific evidence, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force could make it harder for children to get early intervention for autism.

The president has a history of prioritizing diversity hires — and nominees that make it hard for Republicans to vote against.

Dr. Howard Fields, who has spent much of his career working with chronic pain patients, believes many are actually undertreated.

The medical device industry is enjoying a two-year moratorium on a tax that was created to support the Affordable Care Act. Are firms using their savings to create more jobs, as many claim?