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A school shooting in Texas, plus a new government report on university-hired consultants and student borrowers, in our weekly roundup of education news.

The White House is brokering a meeting between the Justice Department and Congress at which lawmakers will receive highly secret information about the Russia investigation. No one, however, seems to know yet when it will take place, who will attend or what materials will be presented.

Forests "are restless things," writes Zach St. George in his new book The Journeys of Trees.He explains how, over millennia, forests creep inch by inch to more hospitable places.

The nation has corrected an oversight three quarters of a century old, awarding the 30th Infantry Division a Presidential Unit Citation for holding off a German counterattack.

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced Thursday morning. We look at potential winners, and what the Swedish Academy will have to do to overcome past controversies.

The court says Gov. Greg Abbott's rule is a refinement of an expansion of voting options, not a restriction or burden on voter rights. Voting rights groups have spoken out against limiting the sites.

Authorities are preparing the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Ind., for three executions next week. They'll be the first federal executions in a long time.

Operation Warp Speed, the government effort to fast-track coronavirus vaccines, has lived up to its name: A new vaccine for a new disease is here in…

Some Northeast Ohio residents are still waiting for power to be restored following strong winds Sunday. More than 10,000 were still without power Monday afternoon. More than 90 poles broke and more than 200 spans of power lines were down Monday, according to a tweet from FirstEnergy, with customer outages around 70,000 as of Monday morning. The National Weather Service reported Sunday gusts as high as 71 mph at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

Last week shares of video game store GameStop were trading at about $40 a share. Then, a group of Reddit users invested. The move sent stocks soaring and raised several questions.