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Hear five pioneering examples of women who composed for and directed their own groups.

Dayton Public Schools wants 10,000 letters to lobby for a postage stamp to honor Jeraldyne Blunden, founder of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.

English professor Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate. Poetry, she says, is something people can turn to for celebrating joys and mourning losses.

To see the speed of demographic change in Texas, look no further than Houston. Over the last few decades — despite crippling humidity, long commutes and a reputation for refineries — the city has become the most diverse in the nation.

The National Park Service expects a busy summer as the country begins to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. Last year 237 million people flocked to national parks to escape from COVID-19.

Globally, health officials are on high alert, implementing airport screenings, evacuations, border controls and other measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

The White House released a blueprint for states on coronavirus testing on Monday at a daily news conference it spiked and then revived.

Plus you'll find two new studies on school choice and kindergarten readiness in our weekly roundup of education news.

The credit reporting agency said Chairman and CEO Richard Smith is retiring — just weeks after Equifax acknowledged that hackers had accessed the personal information of up to 143 million consumers.

After hitting U.S. soybeans with retaliatory tariffs, China is seeking alternatives to supply its important crop.