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Nearly two years after Hurricane Maria, the government has made vast improvements and residents have worked together to clean up their communities, but Puerto Rico remains extremely vulnerable.

A bitter fight is ongoing between powerful backers of a giant terminal on the Mississippi River and residents of the historic Black town of Wallace, La., who say this is environmental racism.

A year after a pro-Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol, teachers say they want students to grapple with the uncomfortable facts of the day.

President Biden is expected to announce Tuesday he's seeking a second term. Jury selection is to start in E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against Donald Trump. Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.

It's one of the most famous studies ever done on kids. It's often cited as a reason children from poor families struggle in school. But it may be neither 30 million words, nor exactly a gap.

Comedian W. Kamau Bell says his new CNN show, United Shades of America, follows "a black guy where he shouldn't go or where you don't expect him to go."

Beyond the prospect of winning the actual nomination, each of these men sees a chance to frame the issues and politics of the general election — and to influence party dynamics for years to come.

Lasers and lava and mummies, oh my! Here are the exhibits that kids and their grown-ups love the most from 10 of the nation's best children's museums.

This week on the Barbershop, Awesomely Luvvie's Luvvie Ajayi, The Root's Danielle Belton and Joann Lublin from The Wall Street Journal discuss women's role in the workplace.

Men detained en route to Europe in Libya tell NPR that guards held them for ransom and sold them off to other detention centers and ultimately into forced labor.