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House Speaker Paul Ryan's decision to call it quits could make a tough Republican midterm campaign even more challenging for GOP incumbents.

Restoring power after a hurricane is a massive job, but crews are running ahead of schedule, even as some residents demand they work faster.

Citizens of Kfar Aza are living in a hotel after Hamas attacked the community on October 7, killing more than 50 residents.

In Sudan, women are at the forefront of popular protests that toppled a longstanding autocrat. They are now challenging Sudan's version of Sharia, or Islamic law.

In 2023, about one in four students was chronically absent. Schools are going above and beyond to turn those numbers around. That often means having difficult conversations with students and families.

The importance of a teacher's presence in the classroom has long been debated. Our 50 Great Teachers project asks: Does does a teacher's performance distract, or does it inspire?

In Edgar Allan Poe's poem, the titular raven repeatedly says, "Nevermore." While he "still is sitting, still is sitting," that raven has moved on to quoth'ing celebrity names that rhyme with "-moore."

Tree sitting has become an increasingly common form of environmental protest. In southern California, a professional tree sitter is occupying a 400-year-old oak, trying to stop the bulldozers. In northern California, a whole sub-culture has arisen to serve the dozens of people sitting in trees. Reporter Jason Margolis climbed a tree near Freshwater, Calif.

About 40 percent of U.S. Catholics are foreign-born or the children of immigrants. The change is having profound effects, from reviving dying parishes to shifting the church's geographical center.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with journalist Ahmed Rashid about the ministers within the Taliban's new interim government who belong to the Haqqani network, which the FBI says is a terrorist network.