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1468 episodes transcribedFrom therapeutics to testing to vaccine development, public health experts are increasingly worried the Trump administration is letting politics guide...
Professional athletes from several leagues said they would not play scheduled games Wednesday night in response to events in Kenosha, Wis.Basketball,...
Donald Trump told the Republican National Convention: "The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon — come t...
The FBI has called it a potential domestic terror threat. The President says he doesn't know much. Now, congressional candidates who've signaled suppo...
Louis DeJoy testified in front of the House Oversight Committee today. He denied ordering the removal of mail sorting machines, but also said he would...
For the first time in modern history, a major political party convention was not about the optics, the crowds, or arena-sized production value. The De...
Former President Barack Obama reportedly changed the speaking order during Wednesday night's Democratic National Convention so that he would speak bef...
For months President Trump has tried to suggest voting by mail is not reliable, while 'absentee' voting is. There's no difference. NPR's Pam Fessler r...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill welcomed students back to campus, only to cancel all in-person classes a week later. Can any college c...
Testing is down 40% in two of the hardest-hit states — Texas and Florida. Ashish Jha of Harvard's Global Health Institute explains what might be going...
The Census Bureau has said it needs more time to complete their count of every person living in the country. But the Trump administration is ending th...
Democrats and Republicans have been unable to agree on a new coronavirus aid package. The president has his own plan — a handful of executive orders t...
No major political party has ever put a woman of color on a presidential ticket. Until now, when Senator Kamala Harris — a former district attorney an...
More Americans are expected to vote by mail this year than ever before. But President Trump has called the U.S. Postal Service "a joke," and now a maj...
A school district in Georgia learned firsthand last week that the virus is almost impossible to contain — especially without masks and social distanci...
The app doesn't seem to collect any more data than other social media platforms. But the Trump administration argues that data could fall into the han...
States are scrambling to replace older poll workers with younger ones. The two major political parties will hold their conventions mostly online. And...
First New York, then the Sun Belt. Now, new states like Illinois and Mississippi are urging residents to wear masks and take the virus more seriously....
After rising for weeks, the rate of daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. has started to level off. But now, just as we saw in the spring, the country is f...
Millions of students are getting ready to head back to school. Some already have. NPR's Anya Kamentez reports on what happens when positive cases crop...
