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Pope Francis delivers a speech Wednesday during his general audience at Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City.

Pope Francis Calls Gender Pay Gap A 'Pure Scandal'

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Francis' remarks, at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, are some of his most forceful statements yet in favor of women.

President Obama escorts 2015 National Teacher of the Year winner Shanna Peeples into the Rose Garden on Wednesday. With them is Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Peeples is an English teacher at Palo Duro High School in Amarillo, Texas.

From The White House, A Celebration Of Great Teaching

President Obama welcomes the National Teacher of the Year and tells how a great educator shaped his own life.

An image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 shows that it seems to be smiling. The space agency says it's the result of a symmetrical alignment of the galaxy cluster and the telescope — along with a powerful gravity field that can bend light.

From The Cold Depths Of Space, A Smile Emerges

In the Hubble image of a galaxy cluster, two bright galaxies resemble eyes, NASA says, "and the misleading smile lines are actually arcs caused by an effect known as strong gravitational lensing."

A man reads a newspaper in a restaurant in Booneville, Kentucky.

Elegies And Effigies: Who Speaks For Appalachia?

It's been called Trump Country, coal country and backcountry. But it's our country.

Joggers run past the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

Does It Matter If The Government Is Dysfunctional?

Shutdown … meh.

Without healthy soil, there won't be healthy crops. Without healthy crops, there won't be healthy people.

The Ground Beneath Our Feet

"Without proper care for it we can have no life."

Will The Tax Plan Put More Money In My Pocket?

It goes beyond a change to your paycheck.

Tugs try to free freighter jammed in St. Lawrence Seaway lock

'Cork in a bottle': Ship jammed in icy Seaway

Prolonged arctic cold is wreaking havoc on the maritime industry across the Great Lakes. The latest problem: A commercial freighter is stuck in ice in a...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Under The Taliban, How Can A Girl Attend School Undercover?

When Shabana Basij-Rasikh was six, the Taliban forbade girls from getting an education. Rather than giving in to their threats, she dressed up as a boy and went to a secret school for girls in Kabul.

Being Different Helped A NASA Roboticist Achieve Her Dream

Ayanna Howard was 27 when she headed her first team at NASA. She talks about feeling like an outsider, and discovering that diversity drives innovation.

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