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Memorial Day weekend kicks off the start of the summer vacation season, and this year gas is up and plane tickets are slightly cheaper. Here's what else you need to know if you're planning a getaway.

Democrats weren't satisfied with DeVos' answers at a congressional hearing. That and more, in our weekly roundup of education news.

Two weeks after parliamentary elections delivered a surprise win for allies of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's divided political leaders are scrambling to put together a coalition government.

A new documentary, John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls explores the life of the war hero turned U.S. senator. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the filmmaker Peter Kunhardt.

A love story between a black Army nurse and a German POW during World War II? You couldn't make that story up — and Alexis Clark, author of the upcoming book, Enemies in Love, didn't.

The storm, which is moving towards the U.S. gulf coast, is likely to become a tropical storm by Sunday afternoon or evening.

The memorial, which honors the 1,177 sailors and Marines on the battleship who died during the December 1941 Japanese surprise attack, has fissures on its exterior.

Right-wing candidate Ivan Duque won a place in Colombia's June presidential runoff against leftist Gustavo Petro. That has some worried that a fragile peace pact with Marxist rebels could unravel.

Years after Robert Mugabe, then-president of Zimbabwe, quit the commonwealth in anger over criticism of his leadership, the new leader has applied to rejoin the group of mainly ex-British colonies.

The four-year results are in on Tennessee's free college initiative. Is this new data significant enough to sway the future of these free college programs?