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Rafe Esquith, pictured with some of his students on the cover of his book <I>There Are No Shortcuts</i>.

Inner-City Teacher Takes No Shortcuts to Success

He's won the American Teacher Award, been awarded the National Medal of Arts, and made an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire. For 24 years, Rafe Esquith has taught at an inner city school in Los Angeles, inspiring his fifth graders to excel far beyond the low expectations often placed on poor, immigrant children.

A tornado damaged a Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., in July. The facility makes almost 25% of Pfizer's sterile injectable medicines used in the U.S.

Chronic drug shortages stress hospitals and patients

Pharmacists struggle to find key medicines and now have to anticipate drug shortages caused by extreme weather and global instability.

<p>Marie Howe is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. </p>

Poet Marie Howe On 'What The Living Do' After Loss

"Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die," Howe says.

One election down, one left. Here's why Nevada has two GOP primary contests

The short answer for why the Nevada GOP is holding its own presidential caucus two days after the state-run primary election: Republicans don't like Nevada's new voting rules.

Caitlin Clark smashes another record in her unprecedented college basketball run

Ari Shapiro talks with ESPN's Michael Voepel about Caitlin Clark's latest record. This time, it's the NCAA all-time points record for both men's and women's basketball.

Biden signs reauthorization of surveillance program into law despite privacy concerns

The legislation extends for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.

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