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Empty classrooms in Puerto Rico, and more in our weekly education news roundup.

The director of national intelligence also told a Senate panel that the threat of Chinese espionage will continue to be the biggest strategic challenge to the United States.

Some of the world's top experts on climate change issued a new warning on Wednesday about how we use land to grow food. They say it's contributing to global warming, but it doesn't have to.

Xi Jinping's allies and loyalists are expected to be installed in other key posts in the coming days, completing a sweeping power grab in China.

The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

Peter Tefft's decision to "unlearn" what he was taught at home has brought heartbreak to his family — and he's no longer welcome, Pearce Tefft says.

A visit to the Children's National Hospital in the Washington, D.C. shows how doctors are trying to keep up with testing demands for children affected by COVID-19.

Iran and the West have very different views on the outcome of Iran's nuclear negotiations, which concluded this week. Iran is having a much easier time of selling the deal to audiences back home.

Kenneth Bacon, president of Refugees International, talks with Scott Simon about his visit to Darfur this week. Bacon says the peace accord signed in May has failed to stop violence in the region. But aid efforts in the region have largely managed to continue serving the large displaced population.

The status gives it some local powers, deprives it of others and leaves it short of the statehood rights that most residents want.