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NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that thousands of people, many of them children, assembled on the National Mall today. "Leave no Child Behind" was the slogan for the day -- in an event organized by Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Children and adults from across the country were there -- no official crowd estimates yet. Conservatives criticized the event, saying it was just a party where liberals could push for more government spending.

Despite being a prosperous nation, the United States fails to care for its youngest and neediest, a child-welfare expert says. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund.

over the legacy of the Wright brothers. North Carolina has traditionally put "First in Flight" on its license plates, but now Ohio is changing its license plates to "Birthplace of Aviation," arguing that the brothers lived most of their lives there.

Are you in the market for a new computer? Wright Patterson Air Force Base is now home to a $25 million supercomputer.Named "Spirit" the computer is the…

Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright has come forward as the elusive founder of bitcoin, a fact that has been in question for years. Rachel Martin talks to Ludwig Siegele of The Economist.

In the 1980s and 1990s, asthma rates in U.S. kids reached epidemic proportions. Though studies indicate the rates are leveling off, rates for African American and Hispanic children and inner-city populations aren't declining. New research suggests poverty, stress and poor mental health may be fueling the problem. Madge Kaplan of member station WGBH reports.

Sen. Barack Obama has addressed the simmering controversy about racially charged remarks made by his longtime pastor. In his speech in Philadelphia Tuesday, Obama denounced the remarks and engaged in a conversation about the broader issues of race in America.

The state's school board wants to measure progress in math and reading differently for students based on race and ethnicity. Supporters say the new passing rates take into account students' different starting points. Critics charge the mandates are "backwards-looking."

Catch up on the latest news on the Ohio primaries, Roe v. Wade and other big headlines around Greater Cincinnati with Cincinnati Edition's Friday news review

In January, Sen. Sherrod Brown asked the president to include Mauritanians living in the U.S. in the TPS program.