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A week into a lockdown, Germany is still hoping to cut a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus infections. Meanwhile, many German stat...

Election officials across the U.S. continue counting ballots Friday. NPR discusses the latest news from key states Georgia, Pennsylvania, No...

U.S. employers added 638,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate dropped to 6.9%. The U.S. has regained about half the jobs lost in Mar...

With the election winner still undecided, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with election law expert Michael Kang and Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker ab...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jennifer Epps-Addison, president of the Center for Popular Democracy, about Democratic gains in Georgia fuel...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Tara Benally, field director for Rural Utah Project, about how the Indigenous vote in Arizona has played...

The government announced a number of restrictions on parts of northern Denmark, the area hit hardest by the infections. Danish officials re...

The move challenges a long tradition of leaving wildlife management to governments, not voters. But the vote was narrow, reflecting many pe...

A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has kill...

Twitter permanently suspended an account from former Trump adviser Steve Bannon after he suggested Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christ...

The coronavirus continued its relentless spread throughout the country this week. Here's what you need to know about rises in cases, hospita...

While some details remain, it looks like the new season will start on Dec. 22. It will be a 72-game season that will allow for the league's...

The U.S. recorded nearly 122,000 new daily coronavirus cases, a sharp uptick over the previous day that saw the country's first six-figure i...

A park ranger learned that a group with cooking pots was hiking toward Yellowstone National Park's Shoshone Geyser Basin. The ranger found t...

While the Russian government has avoided official comment on the U.S. election, the prospect of divided government in Washington, D.C., coul...

Latino voters helped to shape the presidential race in different ways. For the first time, Latinos became the second-biggest voting demograp...

Democratic challenger Joe Biden continues to lead President Trump but is still short of the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the pr...

A new amendment to Missouri's constitution opens the door to redrawing state legislative districts that don't take into account children, no...

Some say Black sailors have to navigate both unconscious and active bias in the Navy.(Image credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Craig Rodarte/U....

An unreleased CDC review obtained by NPR shows that lab officials knew an early coronavirus test kit had a high failure rate. They decided n...

At 16, Ellaraino visited her great-grandmother, Silvia, for the first time. And Silvia had plenty of stories to tell — about being a teenage...

President Trump addressed the nation on Thursday, as his path to the presidency narrowed. He made false claims about stolen votes and touted...

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to sweep its facilities for any ballots in North Carolina and Pennsylvania amid reports of b...

NPR discusses the racial breakdown of current exit polls and how the electorate is changing.

Domestic terrorism analysts say that the drawn-out vote count and fiery rhetoric from the White House are inflaming tensions.(Image credit:...