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Tulsa, Okla., has been the focus of much debate over the long-term benefits of preschool. The most recent findings by Georgetown University researchers are another strong endorsement for early ed.

The trash was piling up in the gutter. A young man in Nigeria wanted to get local kids to help clean it up. His campaign has gone viral.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with poet Li-Young Lee about his new collection of poetry, The Undressing. The book explores love, violence and the confusion between those emotional states.

Florida's governor ordered an investigation into law enforcement's response to the Parkland shooting. The sheriff says that so far, only one of his deputies has been shown to have acted improperly.

The Trump administration is considering a policy change to prevent states from making tough demands of companies that collect student loan debt, according to an internal document obtained by NPR.

He may have thought he was paying the poor a compliment. India's poor, however, do not always have reason to smile.

In 1998, the Las Vegas Review-Journal abruptly killed a story about sexual misconduct at the properties of casino mogul Steve Wynn. Now, with allegations against Wynn again in the headlines, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Carri Geer Thevenot, the reporter of that original story.

The French documentarian died Thursday in Paris. He leaves behind his monumental 1985 film on the Holocaust, which bears a Hebrew name as elusive of definitions as the historical truths he sought.

In a stunning upset, the 28-year-old socialist, whose mother was born in Puerto Rico, unseated Democratic stalwart Rep. Joe Crowley in New York's diverse 14th Congressional District.

Noel King talks to Mayor Gavin Buckley about Thursday's attack on the Capital Gazette, a community newspaper publisher, in Annapolis, Md. Five people were shot and killed. The suspect is in custody.