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Satellite imagery suggests North Korea is preparing an intercontinental ballistic missile or satellite rocket launch at one of its test sites.

Also in this week's education roundup: a new head for Federal Student Aid, and a California law aims to make charter schools more transparent.

A federal judge rejects the government's argument that identifying and reuniting families separated before the zero tolerance policy was announced is too burdensome.

Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she fled to Syria in 2015, had been begging to return to the U.K. prior to her son's birth last month, saying she feared for his health. He died of pneumonia.

Satellite imagery shows that vehicles and rail cars appeared in late February at Sanumdong, a facility where the North has built some of its largest rockets and missiles.

Gage County, Neb. owes $28.1 million to six people who were imprisoned in 1989 for another man's murder. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Lincoln Journal Star reporter Chris Dunker about the case.

Pentagon sources say that Trump's hopes for a space force produced tensions between Wilson and the White House, who saw her as delaying the process. She plans to go into academia.

The charges expand the initial single count of filing a false police report. Now Smollett is charged with multiple counts tied to different aspects of his alleged false report about being attacked.

It was Oregon's first pediatric case in more than 30 years. "It was difficult to take care of him, to watch him suffer," says Judith Guzman-Cottrill, an infectious-disease specialist.

The 57-year-old offered no clues about what prompted him to lace co-workers' food with toxic metals. A psychologist said he "seemed to me like a scientist who was testing substances on a guinea pig."