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On average, preschool teachers are paid less than mail-order clerks, tree trimmers and pest control workers. And if they switched to teach kindergarten — in many states, their salaries would double.

Angel Colon pretended to be dead. "He shoots toward my head, but it hits my hand," he said. "I had no reaction. I was just prepared to just stay there ... so he won't know that I'm alive."

NPR's Carrie Johnson and Hansi Lo Wang talk with David Greene about the latest details in the mass shooting. Johnson says authorities haven't yet shared a timeline of victims' deaths and injuries.

As House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to move on with regular business, the chamber erupted into chaos, with Democrats demanding action on gun control.

The World Anti-Doping Agency considers whether a drug can unfairly improve athletes' chances of winning — and also whether it could harm them — when deciding to blackball a drug.

Late night talk show hosts responded to the tragic events in Orlando in a variety of ways. Many chose to dedicate time in their monologues to the tragedy, thus taking on the role news anchors once had dominion over.

Suburban office parks and corporate campuses look increasingly like dinosaurs as corporate America downsizes and chases a younger workforce into city centers. But some developers are trying to recycle older office parks for the information age.

Germany became the latest country where investors are paying the government for the privilege of owning bonds. It's usually the other way around. Global economic fears are driving this unusual trend.

Uber is trying to settle a class action lawsuit, offering to pay up to $100 million to drivers. That amount is unprecedented, but critics say it may not be enough compensation for the drivers.

In the 1980s, the FBI and NSA dug a tunnel for espionage purposes beneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington. The spy rivalry continues, but how has the game changed since the fall of the Soviet Union?