The Senate voted yesterday to advance debate on a package to claw back funds allocated for public broadcasting and foreign aid. And, a report shows inflation increased in June.

Former national security adviser Mike Waltz defended his use of the encrypted Signal app during a Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday on his nomination as President Trump's ambassador to the U.N.

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled to allow the Trump administration to resume its efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. What will that mean to schools, students and families?

How are states and local school districts preparing for a future without the Department of Education? NPR asks Robert Taylor, superintendent of the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina.

The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than ...

The withdrawal accounts for nearly half of the soldiers sent to Los Angeles in June to suppress protests over the Trump ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Petrilli, head of the education policy thinktank Thomas B. Fordham Institute, about the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Education Department.

Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect.

Pam Bondi sought to move past questions about her handling of the Justice Department's files from the Jeffrey Epstein ...

With 101 people still missing after the July 4 flash flood, the focus turns to local lakes, and what may be buried in them.

New York is suing the Trump administration for withholding billions of dollars in education grants, calling the funding ...

In the first hour of "Connections" on July 15, 2025, host Racquel Stephen and her guests discuss the challenges facing people ...