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ICE agents approach a house before detaining two people on Jan. 13 in Minneapolis.

Some voters who backed Trump say ICE is going 'too far'

A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump's foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela.

EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas voted against the agency's 2024 harassment guidance while she was a commissioner, finding fault with the section on gender identity. "Sex is binary (male and female) and is immutable," she wrote in her dissent.

Trump's EEOC strikes harassment guidance amid debate over transgender protections

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to roll back the agency's 2024 harassment guidance in its entirety. The document gave employers information on what makes up unlawful harassment.

Ian McKellen, left, plays a powerful and reviled theater critic in The Critic, alongside Gemma Arterton, in the role of an actress who was once one of his targets.

Ian McKellen relishes Machiavellian role in new film 'The Critic'

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with actor Ian McKellen about his starring role as a powerful London theater critic who savages "bad performance" in Anand Tucker's new film The Critic.

Sarah Mullally waves as she leaves after the Enthronement Ceremony installing her as archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury, England on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. She is the first woman ever to lead the Church of England.

For the first time in more than 1,400 years, Church of England gets a woman leader

A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman.

Jon Batiste is a musical multihyphenate. The Emmy- and Oscar-winning bandleader, songwriter and TV personality began as a classical piano student in Louisiana. He went on to get jazz degrees at The Juilliard School.

Jon Batiste shares a conversation with Mozart and Thelonious Monk in new albums

Pianist Jon Batiste has been busy. He's offering three new albums at once: one tribute to Mozart and two tributes to Thelonious Monk.

Chacoda, an Atlantic harbor seal at the New England Aquarium, is so good at vocalizing that he can mimic his teacher, Kathy Streeter, when she says, "How are you?"

How To Teach A Sea Lion Who's Fussy About Grammar

At the New England Aquarium, seals don't just cruise around the tank; they go to school each day. And their teacher has an individual lesson plan for each one of them.

Licking Heights High School freshmen take notes in a World History class taught by Amy Obhof..

Public And Religious Schools At Odds Over Ohio Voucher Program Changes

Lawmakers and school leaders would normally have Presidents Day off, but instead they spent it at the Ohio Statehouse, as testimony on changes to the…

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, which houses the U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C.

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

Several states — and the LA public schools — are setting limits on screen time

Four states have recently passed legislation to limit teaching and assessments via screens for students. So has the United States' second-largest school district.

T-Pain: Giving Us Something We Can Feel

The audacious early-adopter weathered a storm of "Auto-Tune sucks" moral panic to emerge as a true artist, a mirror for our culture and a creative force.

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