September 12, 2019Terry NguyenVoxLexile: 1300L–1400 The chief executives of major US companies sent Senate leaders a letter on Thursday, urging Congress to expand background checks on all gun
Facebook is changing how users see vaccine content—part of an ongoing effort by social platforms to correct, block, and minimize vaccine misinformation amid a record measles outbreak.
May 18, 2019Ray Sanchez CNNLexile: 1200L–1300L The roughly 2 million fledgling college students who take out their No. 2 pencils for the SAT each year will now be
May 10, 2019Gaby Del ValleVoxLexile: 1400–1500 A Rhode Island school district recently got national attention for its misguided attempt to get students to pay for past-due lunch debts.
Beyond Meat, the plant-based meat company, started publicly trading Thursday morning, and the stock more than doubled in value right out of the gate—it’s now trading at $60, when just last week the company was estimating it would start selling at $19 to $21.
April 26, 2019Elizabeth FlockPBS News HourLexile: 1100–1200 L Product designer Kaiwei Tang spent years designing smartphones for big companies like Nokia and Motorola. But he started to feel
Sri Lankan officials said on Monday that the coordinated bombings of churches and hotels across the country on Easter Sunday had been carried out by National Thowheeth Jama’ath, a little-known radical Islamist group, with help from international militants.
April 8, 2019Liberty VittertNewsweekLexile: 1100–1200L The legalization of marijuana has been a topic of contention and confusion for both sides of the debate. The federal government still deems
At the age of 19, Nipsey Hussle took the money he earned hustling on the streets of South Los Angeles and bought a plane ticket to his father’s homeland—a tiny country in eastern Africa that fought a brutal war to secure its place in the world as Eritrea.
Early in my first go at being a father, I was hijacked by ancient impulses. Our family lived in a rowhouse neighborhood in Philadelphia, and right down the street was a small playground where gangs of boys gathered for games of stickball and basketball.
An active-shooter training in Indiana took a gruesome turn earlier this year when [sheriff]’s deputies shot elementary school teachers in the back with plastic pellets, mock-execution style.
I sit with almost 800 other people in a packed, historic movie theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The room is lined with ornate Buddha statues, smells like buttery popcorn and buzzes with excitement.