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First lady Melania Trump accepted a $2 million gift Thursday from IndyCar and Fox Corp. to fund new scholarships for children in foster care.

A British sociologist who resigned last week from the University of Cambridge following weeks of public accusations of plagiarism and media scrutiny was found dead Friday.

An artist and educator in Washington, D.C., is using her work to celebrate her students while confronting the lasting effects of redlining. Blu Murphy is helping young people see themselves and their communities as works of art. Shane Mukasa of our . ...

The order recommends separating the MMR vaccine into three different shots administered in separate visits, and directs the nation's health department to improve vaccine research, says a White House fact sheet.

A federal judge has sided with the Virginia NAACP in its lawsuit against a county school board's reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, saying the decision discriminated against Black students and ordering the board to change the ...

The Trump administration is proposing new guidelines that would overhaul Head Start and could change how it's run across the country. Launched in 1965 as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty, Head Start serves 700,000 children ages three to ...

Just about every back-to-school item that families will load into their literal or virtual carts this summer has gone up in price at a time when American families already feel crushed by rising costs.

Emilee Hackney grew up in small-town Appalachia in a church that taught her men were meant to lead. In this episode of Settle In, she spoke with Amna Nawaz about her debut memoir, "All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir," the world she grew up in . ...

What started as outrage over leaked medical entrance exams turned into one of India's largest youth-led protest movements challenging India's prime minister. They call themselves the cockroaches after a top official compared jobless youth to the ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday plans to promote Trump Accounts, which offer $1,000 in seed money to every child born during his second term. Some parents who have signed up say they're still waiting for the money to arrive.