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Mt. Graham is known as a sky island, a mountain ecosystem surrounded by a “sea of desert.”

Steve Inskeep talks to Republican State Sen. Cam Ward and Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Maria Morris about efforts to work across political lines to reduce the state prison population.

Polio paralyzed Sani Muntari as a child. That didn't keep him from school or off the soccer field. And he's played a key role in making Nigeria polio-free.

As writer Jessica Grose prepares to send her child off to school for the first time, she faces a stark reality. Preschool schedules, she says, often require extreme flexibility from working parents.

The Florida senator got his start on the Bob Dole presidential campaign and was once Mormon. Here's what else you might not know.

What separates good preschool from bad? A new report maps out some key answers by studying successful programs.

The latest poll on your health from NPR and its partners finds that most people think their workplace is supportive of actions to improve health. But gaps suggest there is room for improvement.

Republicans are hoping "check and balance" arguments can help save their majority, but Democrats have multiple paths to the four or five seats they need to win control of the Senate.

The survival of Civita di Bagnoregio has grown more uncertain as erosion eats at the base on which it sits. But tourists — 850,000 expected this year in a town of 10 — may pose an even greater threat.

DREAMers Miriam Gonzalez Avila and Abigail Gonzalez are paying attention to the immigration debate. One is covered under DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, but the other isn't.