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Tell Me More checks in with the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, about the biggest challenges educators, parents and students face in schools today. He talks with host Michel Martin about education as a civil rights issue.

Many of America's communities are changing, and so is how voters think about what matters most to them and whom they want their leaders to be.

Cadres of volunteers, mostly medical professionals, are part of a little-known federal emergency program launched in the aftermath of 9/11. Increasingly, states are deploying them against COVID-19.

The people who take care of and educate children under 5 years old, who are too young to be vaccinated, are in a special kind of hell right now.

Click to return to updates landing page.6:30 p.m.This week, a 55-room hotel in the city of Santa Cruz opens to serve homeless seniors or those who are…

Lawyers for the former president say that he did not directly call for violence in his remarks to supporters on Jan. 6 — and that in any event he should not be on trial. Read the brief in full.

The Rosebud Motel appeared in every episode of the much beloved show, and is reportedly priced at about $1.6 million. In real life, it is named Hockley Motel and is in Mono, Ontario.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have pushed back the barrier of how small we can see to a record, atom-scale 0.6 angstrom, over 100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. NPR's Michele Norris talks with physicist Stephen J. Pennycook about the microscopic breakthrough.

A three-judge panel upheld the former Trump adviser's conviction for criminal contempt of Congress. The case is related to Bannon's refusal to cooperate with a House panel probe of the Jan. 6 riot.

The government is offering a hefty tax credit to buyers of electric vehicles, but taking advantage of it is not straightforward. Here's what you need to know.