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The new federal education law requires states to measure "student success or school quality." A new paper argues that they should report the number of kids who miss a lot of school.

Victory for the Chicago Cubs came 350 miles to the east of Wrigley Field, in Cleveland. Wrigley was still where fans gathered to celebrate.

U.S. military personnel came under fire while assisting Afghan partners battling the Taliban in Kunduz district, NATO says. Local officials are reportedly investigating claims of civilian casualties.

More women are likely to hold seats in Congress than ever before after this election. But despite being a majority of the electorate, they'll still make up only about 20 percent of the next Congress.

New Yorker writer George Packer says years of neglect from the Democrats enabled Trump to exploit the biases of the white working class and turn them into a "self-conscious identity group."

State lawmakers cut $350 million in Medicaid funding to early childhood intervention therapists last year to help pay for tax cuts. Now rural toddlers are finding it hard to get vital treatment.

Former North Charleston, S.C., police Officer Michael Slager is charged with murder in the shooting death of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in April 2015.

Two studies show that Ebola virus mutated early in the West Africa outbreak, becoming much more infectious and thus able to kill more people.

Reynolds' As Brave as You won in the literary award's category for young readers' literature; Morgan's The Sport of Kings won for fiction; and Faludi's In the Darkroom won for nonfiction.

It seems every four years, Americans threaten to move to Canada if their chosen candidate isn't elected. Some places are seizing on election-induced panic to grow their populations.