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Many families are under financial stress, parents see kids seriously behind in school, huge rent bills and looming evictions and delayed medical care has negative consequences, to name a few.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta says investigators will work to find the cause of the oil spill and whether anything could have been done to prevent the spill.

The Iowa Department of Education previously said its “Social Justice and Equity in Education Conference” would be postponed until this fall. Early last spring, a department spokesperson said the conference—originally scheduled for April 14—was being postponed because of pending GOP-backed legislation that would put limits on teaching certain concepts related to racism and sexism.

Researchers at the International Monetary Fund say trillions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies are making greenhouse-gas-producing fuels cheaper than they should be and making climate change worse.

Lyle Muller writes for IowaWatch, "for all the dire trends facing some of these places, saying that small Iowa towns no longer can thrive misses a few points."

A whistleblower says Facebook's algorithms could be stoking tensions and fanning ethnic violence in Ethiopia.

20 years ago, Philadelphia high schooler Amir Sidiqi befriended his English teacher, Kevin Haney. That friendship came in handy when Sidiqi and his family were recently stranded in Afghanistan.

Abortion-rights activist Patricia Maginnis died earlier this year at age 93. She's a lesser-known figure in the movement, but her ideas — which started as fringe — became mainstream.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Nate Persily, director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, about his proposal to allow for more independent oversight of Facebook.

The global supply chain is suffering from factory closures in Asia due to the Delta variant and scarcity of shipping containers, truck drivers, raw materials and workers.