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Starting next year, 11th graders in Michigan will no longer face the essay portion of the Michigan Merit Exam, and SAT scores will no longer have to be part of high school transcripts. That’s under bills signed Thursday by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Every year, people in the town of Gavle in Sweden erect a towering goat made of mostly hay to celebrate the Christmas season and to attract tourists.

Scott Simon with some thoughts on overlooked crime stories from around the globe.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he was destined to help people with HIV and AIDS. His work at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is fueled by his belief in personal responsibility to humankind.

The iconic clock in Prague's Old Town Square was renovated in 2018. Four years later, a local preservation group noticed something off about the refurbishment.

The match organizer and the security chief were handed down prison sentences Thursday in connection with a 2022 stampede that killed more than 130 people following a match in East Java.

Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, Sam Nunn and William Perry argue the only way to stop nuclear weapons from falling into terrorist hands is to get rid of all of them. This week the former statesmen and their supporters convened in Oslo, Norway, for a conference.

An Australian television network is making public a series of previously unpublished images from 2003 that show U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Many of the images are similar to those that first appeared nearly two years ago. But others are even more graphic and brutal.

Steve Inskeep talks to BBC News Correspondent Andrew North in the northern Pakistan town of Balakot, one of the places hit hard in Saturday's massive earthquake. More than 20,000 people have died in the Pakistan-India border region.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mayor Byron Brown as the investigation gets underway into Saturday's mass shooting. At least 10 people were killed.