U.S. officials arrest British Virgin Islands premier on drug charges
The premier, Andrew Fahie, was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to launder money, according to a criminal complaint.
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The education culture war is raging. But for most parents, it's background noise
By wide margins, parents across the political spectrum are satisfied with how their children's schools teach about race, gender and history. That's according to a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos.
U.S. soldiers 'return' cake to Italian woman for 90th birthday
A woman was 13 years old when U.S. soldiers grabbed her birthday cake from a windowsill.
LeVar Burton will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the new children's Emmys
Reading Rainbow, a program dedicated to children's literacy, aired on PBS for 23 years. LeVar Burton has won 12 Daytime Emmys and a Peabody Award for his work on the show.
California is investigating Big Oil for allegedly misleading the public on recycling
California's attorney general is investigating oil and gas companies for allegedly deceiving the public that most plastic can be recycled, citing NPR and PBS Frontline's investigation of the industry.
Hollywood and tyrants: How filmmakers take on the powerful
A look at how Hollywood has depicted authoritarians, from Duck Soup to The Last King of Scotland.
Italian children should not automatically receive their father's surname, court says
Italy's Constitutional Court ruled that newborns that are automatically assigned the father's surname at birth is unconstitutional and damaging to a child's identity.
Your dog is a good boy, but that's not necessarily because of its breed
A new study based on thousands of DNA sequences and owner surveys finds that less than 10% of a dog's behavior — like howling, herding or retrieving — can be explained by its breed.
How social-emotional learning became a target for Ron DeSantis and conservatives
Florida officials recently rejected a slew of math textbooks, claiming they included "prohibited topics." Journalist Dana Goldstein theorizes the objections related to social-emotional learning.
Anchor Sage Steele is suing ESPN over free speech claims
Steele's lawyers accuse ESPN and Disney of violating her First Amendment rights and breaching her contract after she made comments on a podcast last September.