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If you think the social pressures in high school are brutal, they're nothing compared to the jockeying that goes on among the high-powered preschool parents in Caitlin Macy's withering new novel Mrs.

It's still early, but the Japanese star is generating the kind of stats that people in America's big leagues last saw around 100 years ago.

House Speaker John Boehner shocked Washington on Friday when he said he would leave Congress by the end of October. NPR's Scott Simon talks to correspondent Sue Davis about what's next for House Republicans.

Eli and Edythe Broad have been buying works for more than 40 years. They wanted a permanent home for their art — so they've established a museum where anyone can see it for free.

At age 11, Matthew Aucoin memorized and performed at a piano all of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. As one of his own operas debuts, some critics are calling him the next big thing.

Dave Graham of Frederickstown, Ohio, has volunteered after natural disasters around the country. He's been spending time offering to listen to stories of tornado survivors in Dawson Springs, Ky.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he was investigating leaked materials, including a video published by the Los Angeles Times in an article by reporter Alene Tchekmedyian that detailed inmate abuse.

Police hope to lower the city's raging homicide rate by focusing more resources on shootings that don't kill." We're modeling a lot of our things on what homicide does," says Lt. Dennis Rosenbaum.

Negotiators between the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's team briefly paused talks on Friday. There's a little more than a week before the country runs out of money to pay its bills.

As bystanders screamed for help, a man with a knife stabbed four young children at a lakeside park in the French Alps. The children suffered life-threatening injuries, and two adults were wounded.