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Voters go to the polls Thursday to decide whether the United Kingdom should remain part of the European Union. Financial Times political editor George Parker explains what a vote to "Brexit" would mean. We also hear from a couple divided over the issue.

Britain forced thousands off Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island, in the '70s to make way for a U.S. military base. For 40 years residents have fought to return. Now they have a growing chance.

State Board of Education members will vote this week on whether to ask for a delay in the implementation of the final phase of the state’s A-F grading system. The 2017-2018 report cards, expected in September, will be the first time schools receive an overall grade. Those summative grades for schools and school districts are made up of more than a dozen smaller measures including academic progress, graduation rates and K-3rd grade literacy

Trump is scheduled to visit the U.K. next week. Mayor Sadiq Khan's office says activists who want to fly the 20-foot blimp still need to get approval from police and the national air traffic service.

In her first appearance on camera since the March poisoning, Skripal said that she was concentrating on nursing her father back to health, but that she eventually hoped to return to Russia.

You'll be asked to take two 3-letter words that are part of an 8-letter word. You have to figure out the entire word.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to postpone a parliamentary vote on the U.K.'s draft agreement on leaving the European Union has left many lawmakers fuming.

Meredith Rizzo is a visuals editor and art director on NPR's Science desk. She produces multimedia stories that illuminate science topics through visual reporting, animation, illustration, photography and video. In her time on the Science desk, she's reported from Hong Kong during the early days of the pandemic, photographed the experiences of the first patient to receive an experimental CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease and covered post-wildfire issues from Australia to California. In 2021, she worked with a team on NPR's Joy Generator, a randomized ideas machine for ways to tap into positive emotions following a year of life in the pandemic. In 2019, she photographed, reported and produced another interactive visual guide exploring how the shape and size of many common grocery store plastics affect their recyclability.

Two brand-new musical works – involving cutting-edge technology and offering commentary on subjects as diverse as a brassy night in Vegas and the wild and…

The alarming escalation of school shootings in recent years has left our nation grieving for innocent lives lost and desperate to bring the bloodshed to…