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Oakland Unified’s new 'opportunity ticket' enrollment policy has the potential to integrate some of the city's top schools by race and class.

We share 98 percent of our DNA with apes -- and they can teach us something about good leadership.

Millions of government workers and contractors hold government clearances, and the president can grant them to anyone he wants — even, as one expert said, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Two top ministers and a slew of more junior officials resigned this week, saying they could no longer serve under Johnson's scandal-tarred leadership. He narrowly got by a no-confidence vote in June.

Is aggressive war legal? Calls are growing now to set up an international tribunal to charge Russia with the same crime.

A top federal regulator called the failure of Silicon Valley Bank a "textbook case of bank mismanagement" during a Senate hearing about what led to its spectacular collapse

The U.S. faces a shortfall of about 450,000 nurses and 120,000 doctors in the coming years. The Senate's top health committee, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, is considering bipartisan solutions.

The world's top-ranked player tested positive for low levels of a banned steroid after his physiotherapist used a topical spray to treat a small cut before giving Sinner a massage, arbitrators found.

A new Trump presidency and the Ukraine war have pushed Germany to change its constitution to spend more on its military. "Building up our military is our top priority," said Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

NPR's Scott Simons speaks with 17-year-old Anna Leigh Waters, a top-ranked pickleball player who is defending her title at the Pickleball World Championships in Dallas.