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The former Michigan governor brings experience in promoting clean-energy manufacturing. She worked with the Obama administration on an autom...

Under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, 11 female and five male officials were appointed in 2018 to high-level roles — despite a rule that at least 40% of...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont about his concerns regarding the bipartisan pandemic relief legislation.

Jeffrey Rosen will serve as the acting attorney general for the last few weeks of the Trump presidency. NPR takes a look at Rosen's backgrou...

Hogan, a Republican, will co-chair with former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Together they will push centrist political ideas as new Co...

The United Kingdom is expected to complete its divorce from the European Union on Dec. 31. However, there's still no agreement about their f...

South Korea has deemed its K-pop stars soft power national security assets. And with a new law, K-pop artists can now defer mandatory milita...

The Census Bureau has yet to release the 2020 census results, which are undergoing quality checks. Based on government records, it estimates...

Dr. Fauci said once the vaccine becomes widely available, if by "April, May, June, July, we get as many people vaccinated as possible, we co...

Amid a spike in new cases, leaders in Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic have announced the return of strict measures to dissua...

Our team is looking back at some of our favorite episodes to work on this year, and what made them so meaningful. And oh, what a year it has...

The Russian leader contacted U.S. President-elect Joe Biden after the Electoral College affirmed his victory. Putin is one of the last major...

In mountains across America, skiers and snowboarders are ditching ski lifts and heading into the backcountry. We talked with a pioneer of ba...

People who work as Santa are making tough choices due to the coronavirus. How close should they get to children? Are Zoom meetings best? For...

The first COVID-19 vaccines are being administered. There are, however, still great challenges ahead when it comes to making sure that peopl...

The Federal Trade Commission gave nine social media and tech companies 45 days to hand over details on how they collect user data. It is the...

Attorney General William Barr will be leaving the Justice Department before Christmas. President Trump tweeted that Barr will be replaced by...

Soon after the Electoral College vote ended with the final ballots cast in Hawaii, President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation. Also, Att...

Trump said he and Barr had a "very nice meeting" Monday and that their "relationship has been a very good one." Barr started out as a loyali...

As health care workers started administering the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine across the U.S., Electoral College members met in every s...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kate Leone, an executive at Feeding America, and Emily Slazer, a manager at Second Harvest Food Bank, about the...

On Monday, health care workers began administering the first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine. NPR discusses the latest news and explores the cha...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Rev. William Lamar IV of Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., about the church's legacy of af...

As the pandemic has forced many to work from home, some are starting to feel as if they are living at work, putting in more hours and being...

Eleven months into the COVID-19 crisis, an unimaginable death toll has been reached. NPR spoke to doctors, nurses and the bereaved about how...