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Top schools like Harvard, seen here in 2000, often offer scholarships and other financial incentives, but they are finding it hard to increase the socioeconomic diversity on campus.

Elite Colleges Struggle To Recruit Smart, Low-Income Kids

Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but also free room and board for top students from poor families. Each year, however, colleges are confronted with a paradox: No matter how many incentives they provide, enrollment of highly talented, low-income student barely seems to budge.

Washington Nationals' Bryce Harper walks out of the clubhouse before an interleague baseball game in Baltimore.

Baseball's Teen Phenom Steals Home, And Hearts

Bryce Harper was 16 when he made the cover of Sports Illustrated as "Baseball's Chosen One." He was 17 when he was the top pick in the amateur draft. And he was 19 when he made his major league debut with the Washington Nationals. Now, after two months of play, he's measuring up to all the hype.

A motorist drives between flowers along the Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest northwest of La Canada, Calif.

Monthly car payments have crossed a record $700. What that means

The average cost of a new car is also at the highest on record, topping $47,000 a pop. At this rate, an essential household purchase is starting to feel like a luxury in America.

Ibrahim Songne, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, opened a pizza spot called IBRIS in the Italian town of Trento. He overcame local prejudices — and now has been named to a list of the world's top 50 pizzerias.

Whatever happened to the African-born pizza chef who won over biased Italians?

Ibrahim Songne overcame local prejudice to gain success in Italy with his pizza joint and a spot on a list of top 50 global pizza joints. He's now made a special pizza in honor of ... Goats and Soda!

A dramatic political battle for the RNC's next chair culminates this week

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico's Rachel Bade about the infighting leading up to the RNC's election for committee chair on Friday.

Carla Hall says her new cookbook is all about celebrating home-cooked meals as a way of bringing people together. "We're all connected through food, and the dishes in this book show that we're more alike than different," she writes. "Sure, I grew up with grits, but it's served as polenta in Italy."

In Kitchens Around The World, Comfort Foods Bring Us Together

Chef Carla Hall invites us over to make spanakopita, one of her favorite Greek dishes. Her new cookbook is all about celebrating the way home-cooked meals unite us — no matter where we're from.

President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

Hayden, who became the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress when she was appointed in 2016, was abruptly fired via email late Thursday.

Justice Department releases transcripts from its conversations with Ghislaine Maxwell

Maxwell spoke with top DOJ officials over the course of two days in late July. Asked about President Trump, she said she had never witnessed him "in any inappropriate setting in any way."

Florida Republicans push back against Trump's plan to expand offshore oil drilling

Florida's top elected officials, all Republicans, say they will work to stop the Trump administration's plan to open new areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling.

What could a second Trump presidency mean for immigration policy?

Immigration policy is among the top issues that President-elect Donald Trump plans to address in office. He ran on sweeping crackdowns of undocumented immigrants.

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