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1469 episodes transcribedPresident Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday night in Cleveland for the first of three presidential debates. Michael McDonald...
The Kentucky attorney general said this week that police were "justified" in the shooting that killed Breonna Taylor during a botched narcotics raid,...
India is poised to overtake the U.S. as the country with the most COVID-19 cases. This week the Taj Mahal reopened to tourists for the first time in m...
This week Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. She'll be the first woman in history to do so. Ginsburg's death sparked r...
Daniel Prude died of asphyxia a week after his brother called 911 on March 23. His death was ruled a homicide. Joe Prude told NPR his brother was havi...
The coronavirus has killed nearly 200,000 people in America — far more than in any other country, according to Johns Hopkins University. And experts a...
There have been so many tropical storms this year that the National Hurricane Center has already made it through the alphabet to name the storms. The...
During the 2000 Presidential election season, it took 36 days and a Supreme Court decision before George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the Unit...
Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in March. Her killing in Louisville, Ky., was part of the fuel for the nationwide protests against police...
Wildfires in Western states aren't slowing down and conspiracy theories about who started them are only making things harder for responders. Conrad Wi...
If President Trump knew how contagious and potentially deadly the coronavirus was back in February, why didn't he express that to the American public?...
More than 3 million acres have burned in California this wildfire season. The previous record in a single season was 1.7 million, two years ago. Towns...
As trials continue for a coronavirus vaccine, some of the world's biggest drug companies have come together in an unusual way. This week, nine drugmak...
Youth voter turnout exceeded expectations in 2018 and may do so again in 2020. Generation Z — those born after 1996 — is the most pro-government and a...
With Labor Day weekend gone, summer is unofficially over — and millions of children head back to school this week, many virtually. Two teachers — Ros...
California set a new record high this week for the most acres burned in a single wildfire season. In an average season, 300,000 acres burn. This year...
Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, told NPR today that keeping people in their houses and 'connected to the economy' will cost money now...
As the Northern Hemisphere prepares for a flu season with COVID-19, there are lessons to be learned from the south. Countries like Australia and Argen...
President Trump has stoked tensions and repeatedly failed to condemn acts of violence from racially — and ethnically — motivated attackers, says Eliza...
It's September and millions of kids are going back to school this month. Millions more already have. And while some students are beginning the new yea...
