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Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primarily serve Indigenous children.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sam McAlister, who persuaded Prince Andrew to go on record about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It's the subject of new movie: Scoop.

The actress spoke with NPR's Robert Siegel about playing the icon in BBC America's Burton and Taylor. The movie follows the preposterously famous '60s and '70s couple as they reunited for a 1983 Broadway production of Private Lives.

"Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure" opened recently in New York City. It features 200 never-before-seen and rare paintings, drawings and artifacts from Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27.

For NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, Ameya Desai interviewed her grandfather, who was forced out of Uganda before moving to the U.S. The California fourth grader is one of our 2024 contest winners.

It's a Thanksgiving Day tradition on All Things Considered for commentator Bailey White to read an original short story. With the author's permission, npr.org reprints this year's story, "Almost Gone."

NPR's Emily Feng speaks with Jack Jenkins of the Religion News Service and with participants and speakers at Rededicate 250, a prayer festival on the National Mall, about the purpose and significance of the event.

Former Mayor Catherine Pugh was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to federal fraud, tax and conspiracy charges last year involving sales of her self-publishedchildren's books.

These pictures take us on a journey through 8 floors, 19 performance spaces and seemingly endless rooms, costumes, and adventures at the Theatre Bizarre Halloween party.