The Chicago Board of Education needs a new slate of members when they all resigned after political squabbles about a budget shortfall. It's a huge shock for the country's fourth-largest district.

Some people are complaining that FEMA has abandoned North Carolina after Helene. While politicians try to politicize the disaster, the reality on the ground looks much less partisan.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author and visiting fellow at Boston University, Arash Azizi about how Iran might respond to a direct attack from Israel.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author and visiting fellow at Boston University, Arash Azizi about how Iran might respond to a direct attack from Israel.

We look at how the possibility of the U.S. getting drawn into a wider conflict in the Middle East could affect the presidential race, as well as how the candidates are doing in swing states.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Trevor Noah about his new book, "Into the Uncut Grass," and about finding common ground with people with different experiences.

We look at the uptick in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon after and overnight Israeli strike in Beirut.

The child tax credit passed by Congress at the height of the pandemic has expired, but states and other local jurisdictions are trying to step in to fill the gap with their own programs and funding.

Could this weekend's election in Tunisia sound the death knell for democracy in its third presidential election since the Arab spring?

It's been almost a year since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7th. We look at how that conflict has grown.

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.