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The average tenure for large-district superintendents is 3 1/2 years. Joshua Starr hit it on the nose.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's trip to the Middle East started with controversy over U.S. plans to withdraw from Syria and ended in discussions about the killing of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Twitter is developing a feature aimed at making the site less toxic for users. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Amnesty International's Rasha Abdul-Rahim, who has studied harassment on Twitter.

Basic health insurance for most affected federal workers will stay in effect, but circumstances are murkier for contractors.

Irving Picard, a lawyer leading the liquidation the collapsed investment firm, says lawsuits and forensic accounting have gotten back almost 70 percent of what was feared lost — some $13 billion.

Just hours after he shot and killed Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke met with other officers who were on the shooting scene and with detectives tasked with investigating the incident.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project about the status of white nationalism in the U.S. one year after the violent "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Critics say Catholic law favors secrecy over transparency and discourages bishops from punishing abusive priests. Increasingly, civil authorities are taking on these investigations.

The Trump administration policy to separate children from their parents at the border has been rescinded but the government is still facing a court-ordered deadline of July 26 to reunify families.

The past week has been filled with news of Russian efforts to hack U.S. political offices and sow chaos through social media. But there has been little action in Washington to address the threat.