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After seven days, about 350,000 students will return to classrooms this week.

The Census Bureau estimates 1.5 million Americans claim Arab ancestry. But some advocates say the Arab-American community is more than double that size.

April job growth and unemployment figures are coming Friday morning. Economists expect to hear that employers added about 150,000 jobs to their payrolls and that the jobless rate stayed at 7.6 percent. But they worry about another negative surprise.

A 6-year-old boy's day off from school Friday left him with a vivid story to tell his classmates, after he was seized — and eventually released — by an alligator in South Florida. The attack occurred at a wildlife refuge where the boy's father had taken his son for a canoe ride.

The final day in the 2012 political marathon has arrived. Here's an hour-by-hour guide to key times across the nation on Election Day.

"You can't host a folk festival in a time like this," said Munich's mayor. Officials said it was a tough decision but they saw no other choice. Some 6 million people attend the festival every year.

"All the hard work was worth it," Ayrton Little said. The video has been viewed more than 6 million times.

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic lopped off roughly a third of the EU's economic activity "practically overnight," the European commissioner for the economy says.

Frontier Airlines and Spirit — the nation's two largest low-cost carriers — are set to merge to create the fifth-largest airline in the country, in a deal valued at more then $6.5 billion.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on why someone would create a forgery of a painting by Adolf Hitler after German police raided an art house in Nuremberg with suspected counterfeits painted by the Führer.