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Six people, including current and former Massachusetts state troopers, have been charged with an alleged bribery conspiracy to give passing scores to commercial driver's license applicants, acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Josh Levy announced Tuesday.

An exhibition of theater lobby cards at New York's Poster House celebrates women's contributions to silent movies both in front and behind the camera.

NPR's senior education correspondent offers his predictions for the big stories in K-12 and higher education.

US Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts says passing the John Lewis Voting Rights law would restore Americans' faith in the peaceful transfer of power and prevent another attempt at insurrection.

John Powers, Fresh Air critic at large, weighs in on the trends of 2007: political campaigns, Iraq movies failing at the box office, HBO's The Sopranos, stories about hitting the road, the TMZing of America, jocks gone wild, hip sentimentality, the nightly ideological news, atheist chic and the writers strike.

U.S. and Pakistani intelligence operatives captured the Taliban's second-in-command. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar effectively ran the organization, U.S. officials say, directing Taliban military strategy in Afghanistan and controlling the group's finances.

The U.S. has a long tradition of favoring old people over kids. A new paper investigates why.

In 2016, the U.S. launched a classified military cyberattack against ISIS to bring down its media operation. NPR interviewed nearly a dozen people who lived it.

A woman's account of her alleged rape by her manager at the Chinese tech company has gone viral, spurring conversations across the country about sexual abuse in the workplace.