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Back to school season also brings prominent primary victories for two educators and a trend of more politically active teachers nationwide.

The Education Department unveiled a plan to rewrite and roll back important rules that govern colleges and their accrediting agencies. The department says it wants to reduce obstacles to innovation, but critics worry this will lower school standards and hurt students.

A jury heard testimony from two FBI agents as the prosecution unveiled evidence on the second day of trial for Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman.

The U.S. government faces a Thursday deadline to submit a plan for reunifying migrant families that remain separated. Noel King talks to Lee Gelernt, the ACLU's lead attorney on the case.

When you say The Flintstones, most people think of the old Hanna Barbera cartoons. But a new comic book adaptation keeps the humor, and tackles some heavy themes like capitalism and human frailty.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Thomas Reese, senior analyst for Religion News Service, about how Pope Francis has changed the Universal Catechism to teach that the death penalty is never admissible.

Nearly a year after Hurricane Irma, Florida Keys workers who prop up its tourist economy are still struggling to find affordable housing for residents displaced by the storm.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Bishop Lawrence Persico of the diocese in Erie, Pa., about the grand jury report on how years sexual abuse were covered up throughout Catholic churches in the state.

Catholics across Pennsylvania are reacting to a grand jury investigation that details widespread clergy sexual abuse of minors. The report says more than 300 priests abused more than 1,000 children.

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union and allies participated in a widespread disinformation campaign: disseminating the theory that HIV, which causes AIDS, had been manufactured by the United States.