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All politics may be local, but some local races are attracting national interest and money. What happens when PAC money pours into local campaigns? Florida's demographics are changing and candidates are setting their sights on a growing Latino electorate. And a Political Action Committee inspired by Pulse launches. These stories and more on Intersection's Friday news round table.

An evidence-based program teaches mindfulness to educators. Research suggests it can reduce their stress and improve their teaching.

Work begins Friday to install a new docking port on the International Space Station that will help private companies send astronauts to the station.

A new study from Pew found that while people of color regularly see and share content on social media about race, white people rarely do.

How did a modestly-sized, developing country become dominant in sprinting?

Competition on some exchanges will be diminished next year when three of the nation's largest health insurers drop out. Still, most marketplace consumers won't see any ill effects from the moves.

These middle schoolers have been working after school for six months building their giant human-powered brain sculpture. Will their ideas hold up or come crashing down?

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program five years ago, NASA relies on Russia to send astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA hopes to change that by paying private companies to ferry astronauts. That program, called Commercial Crew, is making headway this week.

Teju Cole's new essay collection covers politics, poetry, music and even Snapchat. "I love to live things," he says — and he recommends Miles Davis as a cure for election season stress.

Since the conventions, Donald Trump has stumbled badly. That has moved voters in the direction of Hillary Clinton, giving her a sizable lead in the key states.