New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have ...

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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a ...

In the final episode, Marc Maron and former President Barack Obama spoke about the legacy of the podcast, politics and moving ...

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

Among the 2,000 Palestinians freed in the Gaza ceasefire deal were 250 serving life terms for attacks on Israelis dating back ...

The superintendent of Moore Public Schools didn’t think the Oklahoma Legislature made the right choice when implementing a ...

Oklahoma City voters will decide on a $2.7 billion municipal bond package — the biggest in the city's history. The bond is ...

For Indigenous Peoples' Day, the Up First newsletter is recognizing the work NPR's member stations do to uplift Indigenous ...

Brown University professor and cultural anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte is one of this year's MacArthur fellowship winners for her work exploring political and moral ambiguities of border regions.

After more than two years in captivity, 20 hostages abducted during Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, are set to return to ...

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S.