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Sign up for alerts on breaking news and exclusive reporting from NPR Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corp. must turn over hundreds of documents that could shed light on how he and a key corporate director — the former head of Ford Motor Co. — handled major scandals at his properties over the past two decades. A Delaware judge issued the guidance Friday in a long-running case brought by Fox Corp. stockholders.

A few years ago, when Stacia Bourne and her husband would talk about having a second child, the conversation often turned to money. "We were thinking we couldn't afford it," said Bourne, a University of Delaware psychology professor who lives in Maryland. Their first child, George, was born in 2020 and started daycare when he was 2. "The cost for childcare for him is about the same as our mortgage," Bourne said.

The center of the small town of Abbeville, La., near the Gulf of Mexico, was closed off to the public for a few hours last month to hold an invitation-only event. Executives, developers and politicians met in an event venue often used for weddings. There they watched an action-movie-style video depicting Elon Musk landing in a helicopter to a techno-music soundtrack. Waiting for him was Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry. "I think Star Base is cool," Musk says in the film.

Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow's mayor described the wave of drones as the "largest ever" attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building. Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov.

Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. I was in my final stretch of college, during the height of the pandemic. I was holed up in my house in Colorado Springs, Colo., doing homework at the dining room table, when my phone rang. NPR education reporter Sequoia Carrillo was on the line, calling to tell me I had won . It sounds dramatic, but that phone call changed my life.

On campus, there's that hum of excitement in the air as students find their way to classes, meet new roommates and scurry off to pep rallies and rush week. And along with the brisk chill in the evening air, a hint of the coming fall, comes the seasonal excitement of intercollegiate competition: Yes, it's that time of year for the NPR College Podcast Challenge. Once again, students from campuses big and small will vie to win our $5,000 grand prize for the best college podcast in America.

PHILADELPHIA — Ed Sheeran opened a solo concert Saturday with comments about Gaza after controversy swirled around his tour and supporting acts withdrew in solidarity with opener Macklemore, who was dropped after making pro-Palestinian comments onstage. Sheeran said he wants his music and shows to be about unity and humanity, not politics. But he said the attacks in Israel of Oct.

Saudi Arabia on Saturday said that Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack Riyadh with a ballistic missile, the first time the Saudi capital has been targeted since the escalation in fighting with the Iran-backed rebels opened a new front in the Iran war. The statement said the attack was intercepted. Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion, and later some saw a plume of smoke near the airport. There were no reports of casualties or damage.

The U.N. peacekeepers' armored vehicle moves slowly along the de facto border in southern Lebanon, not because of the terrain or the threat of shelling and drones, but because every mile means relearning a landscape profoundly transformed by war. UNIFIL — the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon — has been monitoring this area since 1978, when it was created to verify Israel's troop withdrawal after its first occupation of Lebanon.

Reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico on Saturday said they were denied access to White House grounds after President Trump announced a ban on the three media outlets. Trump said in a Truth Social post on Friday he was banning these outlets from the White House, citing negative coverage of his administration and saying media outlets shouldn't be able to constantly report "FICTION and LIES" when they cover the president of the United States. He warned other news outlets would follow.