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Limited national data suggest teachers are plentiful, but many districts that serve some of the most vulnerable students would beg to differ.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Babel or The Necessity of Violence, Sultana's Dream, La última copa/The Last Cup, and Brick.

President Biden's stark warning about the "tactical" nuclear weapons Russia might use is raising fears of a new crisis. But what are these weapons and how might they be used?

A Japanese chemist identified umami in the early 1900s, but it took a century for his work to be translated into English. NPR's Short Wave podcast looked into why it took so long to be recognized.

The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month.

The fallen Silicon Valley star faces up to 15 years in prison for defrauding investors in her blood-testing company. A U.S. senator is among those who have written letters asking for mercy.

“We are a species that has been around for 250,000 years and numbers have not been around that long.”

Stern was one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life.

Millions of people rely on city parks to recharge, cool off and connect. But climate change is threatening the very spaces that help us cope with the stresses of living on a hotter planet.

Brazilians began voting on Sunday in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits conservative President Jair Bolsonaro against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.