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Connecticut becomes the first state to sue the federal government over the federal No Child Left Behind law. The state says the federal government is forcing it to spend millions of its own dollars on unnecessary tests.

Rep. Chaka Fattah was indicted on on conspiracy, bribery, and fraud counts, and now says restrictions on his ability to meet with his colleagues is an "undue and unnecessary burden."

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., rules that detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have no right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. The case is expected to move on to the U.S. Supreme Court.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass about the myriad of foreign policy challenges facing the Trump administration.

Black people on the autism spectrum can have less access to help than others. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jackie Pilgrim, who has an autistic son and was diagnosed with Asperger's herself.

Almost before the ink was dry, the state's largest nursery is protesting a rule floated by health regulators setting up the framework for Florida's new...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Republican political consultant Mike Murphy about what it might take to run a primary against President Trump.

"It hit hard, it hit fast, it hit with an intensity that we haven't seen before," San Bernardino County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig says. "There will be a lot of families that come home to nothing."

Civil-rights attorneys are challenging a new set of state laws that establish a crime of “mob intimidation” and enhance penalties for riot-related violence and looting, arguing in a federal lawsuit that the measures unconstitutionally “seek to arrest the peaceful expression of free speech.”

To celebrate four years of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, we highlight teachers whose students have shined.