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The Department of Education is expanding a fix to its troubled TEACH Grant program, giving millions of dollars of grant money back to public school teachers working in the country's neediest schools.

The social media platform said it was banning the high-profile individuals for engaging in hate. Jones called it an "authoritarian" move.

A record number of women were elected to Congress during the 2018 midterm elections. A new organization, called Supermajority, is trying to ensure that women's voices are heard in politics.

NPR's David Greene talks to Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana about Attorney General Barr's decision not to appear before the House Judiciary Committee. NPR's Kelsey Snell weighs in.

The Census Bureau is planning to send workers to personally visit every household in Paradise, Calif.; Mexico Beach, Fla.; and Puerto Rico, which are still recovering from wildfire and hurricanes.

Two members of the pioneering Mexican rock band's crew were beaten and briefly kidnapped on Thursday on a highway in Mexico. Its instruments and gear were also stolen.

Teachers are using a game called Mystery Skype to teach geography and connect with classes around the country and world.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, is close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and holds an outsize influence on national policy. Its goal: to redefine India according to the Hindu faith.

Singleton, who died April 29, spoke to Fresh Air in 1991 about his semi-autobiographical movie, which centered on kids growing up surrounded by drug addiction and gang violence in South Central L.A.

Now that so many experimental drugs targeting amyloid-beta have bombed, scientists are looking for different approaches for treating Alzheimer's, including a drug that failed as a cancer treatment.