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Officials in state capitals across the U.S. are guarding against potential violence. Authorities have boarded up buildings, installed protec...

Can you call the events of January 6 an insurgency? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling what he thinks b...

A federal manufacturing contract to increase COVID-19 vaccine production has an unusual clause that could move a company's employees and the...

As federal investigators begin to launch criminal cases against some of the perpetrators of the violence, a growing chorus advocates and law...

Wesley Allen Beeler presented unauthorized inauguration credentials Friday night, police said. Beeler admitted to having the handgun in his...

Lawmakers want to know what the intelligence community knew about the planned attack, and why they didn't prepare more thoroughly.(Image cre...

Cheers erupted in hospital wards across the country as a first group of nurses and sanitation workers rolled up their sleeves and got vaccin...

Uganda's electoral commission says Museveni has won a sixth term in office, but Wine is saying the election was rigged, and the top U.S. dip...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Daphne Keller, Platform Regulation Director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center, about how social media...

We take a look at President Trump's second impeachment, how congress might handle Biden administration business and look ahead to next week'...

States are using the honor system to determine who gets a coronavirus vaccine. Cheating would be easy, but pharmacist Jenny Arnold tells NPR...

Scott Simon talks to Kojo Nnamdi, host of WAMU's The Kojo Nnamdi Show, about how last week's insurrection and dangers surrounding inaugurati...

Higgs had been sentenced to death for the 1996 killings of three women in Maryland, which has since abolished the death penalty.(Image credi...

The NRA aims to relocate to Texas, away from the "corrupt political ... environment" of New York. The state's attorney general says official...

New actions from the Office For Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services aim to fight discrimination against people with...

President-elect Joe Biden has released the details of his plans to revamp the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Also, the Trump administration...

In India, TikTok was a phenomenon. Last June, the Indian government banned the app for geopolitical reasons. Six months later, it's not clea...

Patti Neighmond, an outgoing health policy correspondent who has worked at NPR for 40 years, remembers her favorite story — about a young qu...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia University, about what people mean when they talk about unity and h...

President-elect Joe Biden will seek to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of his relief bill. On Friday, workers acros...

Political conspiracy theories are pushing some family relationships to the breaking point. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Dannagal Young of...

Sean Urbanski, 25, was convicted of murdering Collins in 2017. Limitations in Maryland's hate crime statute exempting Urbanski led to a chan...

The deaths caused by the pandemic appear to be shortening overall life expectancy in the U.S. by 1.13 years, which would be the largest sing...

More than two dozen off-duty officers attended the pro-Trump rally. Federal investigators will determine if they broke any the laws during t...

Retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested in October at Los Angeles International Airport by U.S. law enforcement, outraging Mexican off...