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Few gifted programs across the country have done what Paradise Valley, Ariz., has done to identify and support gifted English language learners.

Rumors have swirled that Republican delegates could nominate Ryan in a multiballot convention. Ryan put those rumors to rest, definitively ruling himself out.

A lawsuit claims that Led Zeppelin perpetrated a "falsification of Rock n' Roll History." A federal judge dismissed that part of the plaintiff's case.

A new film by a Houston director is examining a dark period of Texas history. "The Example" is set during the 1943 race riots.

Inmates in seven state prisons refused to leave their cells, in protest of what they call inhumane living and working conditions.

NPR’s Marilyn Geewax discusses women's fight for equal pay, and how things have changed since the observance began in 1996.

This week on The Reading Life: Vivian Swift, author of Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler’s Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening, and Bill...

A charismatic stranger in a remote Irish village turns out to be a war criminal in O'Brien's new novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls the book one of O'Brien's "best and most ambitious novels yet."

Poet Tess Taylor's new book, Work & Days, is a lyrical meditation on food and farming and our "fragile and ultimately, necessary relationship we have with the earth." Download her illustrated poems.

Comics Nadia Manzoor and Radhika Vaz play Muslim immigrants dealing with speed dating, catcalls and other aspects of life in secular New York in their sketch-comedy series Shugs & Fats.