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Cyclone Idai damaged over 600 schools in Mozambique. Teachers and administrators struggle to rebuild and keep kids in class in the aftermath.

Nathan Englander's new novel is a satire on doubt and devotion, and it starts with a death — the death of an observant Orthodox Jew whose secular son is struggling with his religious obligations.

Kate Klonick asked her law students at St. John's University to try to identify people they came across in public, based solely on what they said and wore. It was surprisingly easy.

A new restaurant in New York City is catching a lot of heat for marketing itself as "clean Chinese food." San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho talks about why with NPR's Ailsa Chang.

The feat has been compared to the four-minute mile or a two-hour marathon — "but vertically," one climber adds. Still, they beat the impossibly steep odds Wednesday in California's Yosemite Valley.

Twitter and Facebook threaten to suspend accounts spreading fake news. Some politicians accuse them of cracking down on right-wing voices. Twitter execs are to testify before India's parliament.

Forbes named Kylie Jenner the world's youngest self-made billionaire and some were not happy about it. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Forbes' Natalie Robehmed about what being "self-made" means.

A driving force in Greater Cleveland’s literary landscape is one of this year’s Cleveland Arts Prize honorees. Since 1982, Suzanne DeGaetano has promoted local writers, organized author signings and hosted book clubs at Mac’s Backs bookstore on Coventry Road. It all started with an offer from her friend, Jim McSherry, who owned a bookstore in Chagrin Falls and wanted to start a Cleveland Heights branch. "I thought, 'I'll do this for a couple years'," she said. "It was such an intriguing idea to me."

A new study surveying 3,000 teenage girls and boys in 25 countries, with a focus on developing nations, found that for every 15 boys who own a phone, only 10 girls do.

The underdog comedy, which centers on a hard-partying woman who signs up for the New York City Marathon, proves that even a predictable plot can be hard to resist if it's well executed.