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The State Board of Education voted 9-2 to request a moratorium on new spending for Opportunity Scholarship vouchers as part of its budget request to the General Assembly.

In a wide-ranging interview with NPR, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expressed concern about the new administration's recent steps to pull back from approach to public health but says he's optimistic about the future and wants to find common ground with the White House.

A judge ordered the naming rights of the extremist group the Proud Boys be given to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

Marko Elez had recently been given special access by a federal judge to highly sensitive payment systems in the Department of Treasury.

Two letters from different groups of senators call for answers from the Trump administration about pauses in scientific communications and funding.

A majority of employees who work in the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been put on paid leave effective immediately. They all work on environmental justice issues or on diversity, equity and inclusion.

The rebels continued advances in eastern Congo despite their own announcement of a cease-fire. The U.N. secretary-general called for them to lay down their guns and agree to mediation.

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life sentence in her state, which doesn't have the death penalty.

The move came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports.

Daniel May Jr.'s parent divorced when he was 5. Weekdays were hard for him, but he found relief on the weekends when he visited his grandmother in the suburbs outside Cleveland, Ohio.

There is one economic riddle ahead of Super Bowl Sunday: The egg market has been hit hard by avian flu, but wings are abundant and relatively affordable this year. So what gives?

Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.

Despite a free trade agreement with Mexico, U.S. potato growers had been mostly blocked from selling their potatoes in Mexico for more than 24 years. Planet Money traveled to Idaho to understand why.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets with President Trump Friday. He faces a challenge in overcoming Trump's long-held skepticism about the usefulness of alliances.

The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation's education policy. But at a recent meeting, partisan differences were on full display.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Eugene Cho, president of Bread for the World, about how the tumult at the U.S. Agency for International Development is affecting efforts to fight global food insecurity.

Shortly after Kendrick Lamar took home five Grammy awards, he's getting his biggest single audience ever, as the featured artist of this year's Super Bowl halftime show.

The new movie "Jazzy" follows two young girls as they navigate the ups and downs of adolescence in South Dakota. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the film's director and young star.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nabil Fahmy, former Egyptian foreign minister and ambassador to the U.S., about how Egypt views President Trump's plans for Gaza.

The DOJ is moving to implement President Trump's agenda for the agency, including reevaluating past criminal cases against him.