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The Interior Department has taken flak this week with reports that employees — despite the partial government shutdown — are working to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on disappointing results released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress -- a report known as the "nation's report card." Reading scores of fourth graders have improved little over the last eight years and the achievement gap between white and minority students remains substantial.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the State Department's annual human rights report notes that there are more mechanisms for promoting human rights than ever before, yet human rights abuses sometimes seem to be worse than ever. This year's report focuses on the rights of women, children and asylum seekers to a greater degree than previous annual assessments of the state of human rights worldwide.

NPR Reporter Jason Beaubien talks with Steve Inskeep about the difficulty of reporting the crisis in Zimbabwe. Beaubien says he must go undercover as a tourist to enter Zimbabwe and report on conditions there.

The good news is that the world has solutions and technology to slow climate change. The bad news is that time is running out.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders, about his reporting into cases of child sexual abuse in immigrant youth shelters.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports on the U.S. State Department's annual report on global terrorism. Overall, it seems state-sponsored terrorism has given way to smaller groups which are more difficult to fight.

that a new report shows big increases in the number of teens using illegal drugs.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the latest analysis of problems within the Los Angeles Police Department. An independent attorney was brought in to analyze the department's own inquiry into its troubled Rampart Division. Today, he made his first report on his findings. It wasn't good news for the LAPD.

NPR's Noel King talks to freelance reporter Kimon de Greef about New York City's songbird competitions and why some people go as far as to try to smuggle finches into the U.S.