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House Republicans plan to hold a forum Tuesday to vet candidates for speaker of the House. A vote for speaker is set for Wednesday. How likely is that Kevin McCarthy could serve as speaker again?

This year's standardized test scores show a continued pattern of disparity amongst neighboring school districts in the Bay Area’s Mid-peninsula.

Poet Hanif Abdurraqib has experienced a lot of loss in his life, and sees the grief from those losses as its own kind of spiritual practice.

The UAW continues its strike at three auto plants in the Midwest with rallies, picket lines and lots of uncertainty.

In 2003, Susan Dickman noticed several missed calls from the hospital where her dad was being treated. She rushed there and was in a panic in the elevator when she felt a hand on her back.

The numbers are far less than in the U.S. but school attacks are definitely on the increase, prompting soul-searching — and a national debate over strategies to prevent future tragedies.

Following a Marshall Project/NPR report detailing violence and abuse at the newest federal penitentiary, three members of Congress asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate

Smaller cities across the country are starting to embrace big city crime fighting technology to combat staff shortages. But with more surveillance opportunities come privacy concerns.

West Virginia University plans to cut its language department and drop all language requirements as it faces a budget deficit. It's the state's largest university.

Senators say they're inching closer to a bipartisan agreement on strengthening the nation's gun laws. They returned to Washington after a weekend in which mass shootings occurred in eight states.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov about what the Wagner mercenary group's revolt means for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis says being homosexual "isn't a crime" and that Catholic bishops should welcome members of the LGBTQ community into the church.