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A new 2024 election poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist shows fundamental divides over concerns for America's future and what to teach the next generation.

Congressional leaders have agreed to a spending framework to fund the government through September. The decision to back the a plan supported by Democrats could threaten Speaker Mike Johnson's future.

The southern Indian city of Chennai is known for its high achievers. In recent years, it has produced some of the world's most formidable chess players — and the youngest world champion.

Republican Matt Van Epps won the Tennessee 7th Congressional special election, but Aftyn Behn's overperformance has Democrats celebrating, too, and sets up an affordability focus in the 2026 midterms.

Top GOP and Democratic strategists say the global pandemic is shifting the calculations in this November's House and Senate races and could make for an unpredictable year.

Before he became the guitarist for ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons was in a band called the Moving Sidewalks that just missed its shot at stardom. The album the Moving Sidewalks never released in the late 1960s was released in late 2012 and is very much a period piece, albeit a very well-made one.

Congress changed the law in the 1970s when President Nixon prepared to leave with his documents — and infamous tape recordings.

Kami Rita Sherpa first climbed to the top of the world's highest mountain in 1994. He has climbed Everest nearly every year since the 1990s — sometimes more than once in a single season.

The vote is illegitimate, Ukraine's leaders in Kiev and Western governments say. Separatist leaders say Sunday's referendum shows strong support for secession; recent surveys tell a different story.

The breathtaking lack of women in the tech industry has a real effect on one of America's most important economic and innovation engines. Join our running conversation on the cultural changes at play and what to do about it.