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There are more teachers now than before the pandemic, so why did almost half of U.S. schools still have teacher vacancies weeks into this school year? Here's what to know.

That's not a typo. A watchdog review of the Social Security Administration also found thousands of people who tried to verify employment eligibility using numbers belonging to those over that age.

The anonymous donor said that while investigating the origins of their family's wealth, they discovered their great-grandfather had owned six enslaved people in Bourbon County, Ky.

A new documentary shows how the CIA and Britain's MI6 engineered the forcible removal of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The 1953 coup continues to rattle history to this day.

Six former Mississippi Sheriff officers — some of whom called themselves "The Goon Squad" — plead guilty to state charges for the torture of two Black men.

Six months of war in Gaza have sent shock waves through the Arab world. Public anger is growing in Jordan and Lebanon, two countries that have peace treaties with Israel.

Many states have no minimum age, but there's a push to raise it to a common international standard of 14. Experts say diversion programs should be provided without the criminalization of children.

Despite prosecutors listing six of his alleged co-conspirators, Donald Trump will be standing alone in Washington, D.C.'s federal courthouse in his first court appearance since being indicted Tuesday.

Fighting for civil rights and three decades in the House have primed Mississippi's Bennie Thompson for the most high-profile moment of his career — leading this month's hearings on Jan. 6.

The new NPR podcast debuts Friday. It tells the story of Sergeant Josh Abate, who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 along with two of his fellow Marines.