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Congress passed bipartisan legislation to provide families that rely on subsidized school meals with help buying food over the summer. Nearly half of Republican-led states have yet to sign on.

The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”

After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.

My daughter told us to look out for her after she was gone, and sometimes we find her.

For 40 years, Dr. Jane Burns has been working to find the cause of Kawasaki disease, an illness that can lead to aneurysms and heart attacks. Her work has brought together a most unlikely team.

In a letter, Joseph Ladapo said parents at an elementary school with confirmed measles cases can decide whether their children should attend school.

Born with H.I.V. in 1984, she began raising awareness on television when she was 6 years old.

The 7-year-old was on vacation with her family from Indiana when she and her brother became trapped in the sand at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, the authorities said.

New surveys show that today’s intensive parenting has benefits, not just risks, and most young adults seem happy with it, too.

American children are more likely to live in poverty, go hungry and die young than in most of our peer countries. We can fix this.

When vaccinations begin to lag, as they did during the pandemic, measles is often the first disease to resurge. “It’s the canary in the coal mine,” one expert said.

The genetic treatment targeted a particular kind of congenital deafness and will soon be tried in children who are younger.

She created one of the world’s best-known characters for children, and fought to have the book published, but she never sought celebrity status.

Enormous numbers of kids follow social media influencers who boost addictive drugs to audiences who are too young to legally buy them.

Congress approved a Biden administration initiative to feed poor children during the summer. But 15 states opted out.

Authors and activists said the Republican-backed law infringed on free speech. The judge said the ban imposed a “puritanical ‘pall of orthodoxy’ over school libraries.”