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A new Congress starts this week, with questions about whether House Speaker Mike Johnson can stay in his job and if GOP in-fighting will be an obstacle as the new Trump administration kicks off.

Research shows K-12 students in different states spend wildly different amounts of time in school, and suggests the nation's schools could be much better about using the learning time they do have.

European leaders met in Brussels for security talks. High on the agenda was Greenland. President Trump has threatened to take control of the island, suggesting it's important for regional security.

Johnson, now 69, was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for being a first-time nonviolent drug offender.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has said he'll recommend removing fluoride from the country's drinking water. Juneau, Alaska, did so in 2007.

David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, discusses the human impact of the alleged chemical attack in Syria and the U.S.-led airstrikes with NPR's Scott Simon.

Jimmy Greene's new album is dedicated to his daughter, one of the 20 children killed in the elementary school shooting. "She showed love," he says, "to everybody she came in contact with."

The president says up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the United States could be housed at the facility in Cuba, but it wasn't immediately clear how the plan would be implemented.

President-elect Trump will get sworn in today for his second term in the White House. We preview what we know about the day.

Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsby have something to say to us in 2025.