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Brynn Anderson/AP PhotoNew 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. -
Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesTom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
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Mexico has deployed some 10,000 troops in addition to civilian rescue teams. Helicopters have ferried food and water to the 200 some communities that remained cut off by ground. -
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas. -
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas.
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Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina called for dialogue "to find a way out of this situation" and said the constitution should be respected. -
In the final episode, Marc Maron and former President Barack Obama spoke about the legacy of the podcast, politics and moving on. -
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. -
Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States. -
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers. -
With start of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and release of hostages and prisoners, here are some key figures related to the Gaza war and the Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked it. -
Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens. -
The Mines Advisory Group has been removing landmines for more than three decades. This year, it received the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, a prestigious award with a $3 million prize. -
Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.
