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What's the key to helping a child born in poverty make it to the middle class? Some say it's good preschool, others say a college diploma. For one advocate, the time to help is at the end of college.

A day after recovering the plane's cockpit voice recorder, a ship has also found and retrieved the flight data recorder, Egypt's Civil Aviation Authority says.

Friday marks the first anniversary of when nine black parishioners were murdered during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. Dylann Roof, a white 21-year-old, spent an hour with worshippers before allegedly opening fire.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with our regular political commentators E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss the mass shooting in Orlando, public reactions from around the country and the political response from Washington, D.C.

A judge is considering whether a suit filed by family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims can proceed. The plaintiffs argue that the rifle should not have been sold to civilians.

Disney installs signs warning of the danger posed by the reptilian predators days after a 2-year-old boy was snatched and drowned by one.

In November, the California cities of Oakland and San Francisco are expected to take up the issue of taxing sugary sodas. And voters in Boulder, Colo., may see a ballot initiative too.

Trump had to drop "university" from his enterprise's name, but it used similar tactics to institutions in the for-profit college industry, where students incur high cost and debt with low results.

Being a teacher sometimes means shutting the door to your classroom and cutting yourself off from colleagues all day. So, these teachers are opening the doors again to learn from one another.

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