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The vice president is the face for the administration's work on abortion, more. Vice President Kamala Harris will soon be hitting the road for a monthlong college tour, Travel ing to more than a dozen campuses across eight states . The trip underscores both the value Democrats are placing on young er voters and the more forceful role Harris is seeking to play on key issues like abortion access ahead of the 2024 election, after weathering two years of scrutiny and low approval ratings. The vice president's "Fight for our Freedoms College Tour" begins on Sept. 14 at Hampton University in Virginia. It will focus heavily on mobilizing young voters -- some of whom have expressed less than favorable views of President Joe Biden -- in states including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin and Virginia, with additional campus visits and details to come. News of the tour, first reported by ABC News, comes as students return to school for the fall sem...

To document the reading crisis, ABC News traveled to schools in several states and met families of struggling kids, and spoke with experts about the problem. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process that, if left unaddressed, can cause long-standing academic problems. Ask D'Mekeus Cook Jr., a fourth grader from Louisiana, who was reading at a kindergarten level when he started second grade two years ago. Or Journey, another fourth grader from Ohio, who said when she comes across an unfamiliar word it makes her feel "sad." They have both struggled to read -- and they're not alone. MORE: Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds lowest in a decade, report finds A combination of under-funded schools, educator shortages, inadequate teacher preparation and months of lost learning due to pandemic school closures have caused a resurgence of concern about kids' reading ability. But D...

A group of 19 Republican-led states on Monday asked the Supreme Court to stop the immigration restriction Title 42 from ending this week A group of 19 states on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and stop the immigration restriction Title 42 from ending this week -- contending that not doing so "will cause a crisis of unprecedented proportions at the border." "Getting rid of Title 42 will recklessly and needlessly endanger more Americans and migrants by exacerbating the catastrophe that is occurring at our southern b order ," Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement. "Unlawful crossings are estimated to surge from 7,000 per day to as many as 18,000." The policy known as Title 42 started in 2020, under President Donald Trump, in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic and has since been used to expel migrants from the southern b order more than 2.4 million times on the basis of public Health concerns. MORE: Texas Gov. Greg...