Erie County began an investigation after a supermarket worker said the dispatcher hung up on her when she called during the attack.

Inspectors and lawyers traveling to border facilities in Texas described tremendous overcrowding and filthy conditions for hundreds of children and other detainees.

School superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners have taken it upon themselves to shut down much of American life without clear guidance from the...

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”

The prolonged uncertainty in spite of the clear preference of the public has intensified some Americans’ anger at a system in which a minority of people can claim a majority of power.

Antwion Ball, a respected former Baltimore City Schools mathematics teacher who preached self-respect and achievement in his young Black male students, died of complications of diabetes and COVID-1…

But we keep on keeping on.

Law enforcement officials condemned the president’s remarks as inappropriate and potentially dangerous. Police supporters said it was clearly intended as a joke.

After escaping slavery, Tubman led hundreds of other people to freedom.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, surprised members of the Johns Hopkins University’s 2020 class Thursday by serving as a guest spe…

A watchdog filed a complaint over the Education Department distributing a Fox News clip of Secretary Betsy DeVos criticizing Joe Biden, potentially in violation of the Hatch Act.

“It’s hard to breathe without her.”

Discipline disparities between Black and white boys have driven reform efforts for years. But Black girls are arguably the most at-risk student group in the United States.

The death of a beloved educator in Houston, like others across the country, has deepened teachers’ fears and conflict over in-person instruction during the pandemic.

Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He was later called the conscience of the Congress.

The man, Christopher Belter, had pleaded guilty in the sexual assaults of four teens. He faced eight years in prison, but a judge sentenced him to probation instead.

Dunn, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and cerebral palsy, championed equal rights for society’s most marginalized and was the driving force behind a bill to provide alternative graduation...

The appointment marks a generational shift at MSNBC.

CBS This Morning host Gayle King has become a trending topic after a clip of her asking WNBA legend Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant’s 2003 rape trial and whether …

The reversal, which followed a bipartisan backlash, will last for only a year unless Congress permanently changes the program’s eligibility requirements.

“They’re like, ‘The world’s out of control, why should I be in control?’” the principal of Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pa., said of some of his struggling students.

A look at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s career as a Harvard student shows her early passion for justice, and her strong sense of identity.

The couple made the initial call to the Korean ambassador to make a “personal plea” for the tests.

A briefing packet for federal emergency response teams details the steps schools should take to reopen safely.

The rule, struck down by a bipartisan majority, sought to rewrite Obama-era debt relief measures, which allow students misled by schools to request that their loan debts be forgiven.

Many school cafeterias are now operating more like community soup kitchens, even though the federal school meals program won’t reimburse districts for meals served to struggling adults.

In Charlottesville, the past five years saw both the slow fall of a statue and the rapid rise of a young activist.

The president of Liberty University, which he partially reopened to students during the pandemic, accuses a NYT photographer and ProPublica reporter of trespassing.

I thought I would have until our first grader went off to college before I would feel such anxiety.