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Scotland will vote Sept. 18 on whether it wants to break away from the United Kingdom. NPR's Ari Shapiro provides the basics on the likelihood of secession and what it might mean.

Recent graduates Cristina Chase Lane and WinnieHope Mamboleo will be joining the profession just as teacher strikes sweep the nation. Instead of feeling demoralized, they say they feel galvanized.

School districts around the country have seen incidents of anti-mask parents and protesters disrupting school board meetings and school events, and some are getting physically violent.

In times of crisis, leadership experts recommend a blunt approach. But in the early days of the pandemic, President Trump chose the opposite tactic, downplaying the threat reportedly to reduce panic.

The Major League Baseball lockout continues, with players and owners still at odds. A 100-year-old court case gave the MLB an 'antitrust exemption' and set the stage for the labor unrest we see today.

Travis View hosts the conspiracy-debunking podcast QAnon Anonymous. He says QAnon persists because its delusional ideas don't come from a single leader, but are "self-generated" and "crowdsourced."

A massive suit against the opioid industry could cost them more than $10 billion. But, is that enough money to cover the costs of overdose deaths, treatment programs and more?

French President Emmanuel Macron was expecting next year's presidential election to be a repeat of his victorious fight with the leader of the far right in 2017 — but new challengers are emerging.

President Biden met with plaintiffs from the Brown v. Board of Education case Thursday. On Friday, he's meeting with members of historically Black sororities and fraternities.

A new poll by the National Alliance on Mental Illness finds that one in five Americans reports their mental health is poor. And a majority think lawmakers are doing too little, spending too little to address mental health and substance use needs.