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Pakistani education officials are broadcasting lessons over a TV channel to keep kids learning. A public education channel was cobbled together just weeks after schools shut down in March.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Yasmine Shamma about her son, Nadim Shamma-Sourgen. He dictates his poems because he can't really read and write yet.

For the first time in its 50 year history, Comic-Con International has been forced to cancel its in-person event attended by more than 130,000 people and move online.

Turkey held the first organized Muslim prayers Friday in the famed Hagia Sophia after the grand ancient building was converted from a museum into a mosque.

More than 170 recent law school graduates are slated to take the Iowa bar exam in-person next week, after the Iowa Supreme Court has denied requests from recent law school graduates, professors and lawyers to make changes the testing process.

"We haven't seen the cats get superexcited about seeing people, but that's honestly to be expected," says Craig Saffoe, curator of the Smithsonian's National Zoo, which reopens Friday.

The president links billions of dollars in federal aid to school districts that reopen fully but acknowledges that in some coronavirus hot spots, the start of the school year may need to be delayed.

Johnson County supervisors went ahead with a mask mandate, despite legal guidance from the county attorney that such an order is not enforceable. Hoping to send a clear message, supervisors also want to work with the Board of Health to implement an enforceable ordinance.

President Trump and his supporters portray antifa as the left's equivalent to deadly far-right extremists. Domestic terrorism data show just one fatality is linked to antifa — the attacker himself.

A day after the Iowa City mayor ordered residents and visitors to wear face coverings in public settings, Johnson County officials are considering their own order.