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1659 episodes transcribedJury selection in the highly anticipated trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began Tuesday after being delayed amid an effort to...
Over the weekend, the Senate approved a version of President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, setting up a vote in the House that could sen...
What do you do after you've survived a mass shooting? In this episode of NPR's Embedded podcast, we hear the staff at the Capital Gazette newspaper re...
Colombian President Iván Duque won praise from the United Nations, Pope Francis and the Biden administration with his recent announcement that Colombi...
In the U.S., the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is improving every day, but hundreds of millions of people are still vulnerable. And now, with some stat...
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week about voting laws in Arizona that would make ballot access harder for people living in rural areas like th...
Disinformation isn't new. But in the last decade, the growth of social media has made it easier than ever to spread. That coincided with the political...
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has taken over after a turbulent time. Former President Donald Trump was frequently at odds with the Am...
Bayard Rustin, the man behind the March on Washington, was one of the most consequential architects of the civil rights movement you may never have he...
It's been almost a decade since Washington and Colorado became the first states in America to legalize recreational marijuana. Now a new generation of...
Just because the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is done, it doesn't mean the story of what happened on Jan. 6 at the U.S. C...
Natural gas utilities face a bleak future in a world increasingly concerned about climate change. An NPR investigation shows how they work to block lo...
After more than 500,000 deaths and nearly a full year, experts say there are a growing number of reasons to be optimistic about the direction of the p...
Last summer, the city of Austin, Texas, slashed the budget for its police department. More recently, the city council voted on a new way to spend some...
Why is it so hard to feel the difference between 400,000 and 500,000 COVID-19 deaths — and how might that impact our decision making during the pandem...
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is on track to pass a number next week that once seemed unthinkable: Half a million people in this country dead from...
Millions of people in Texas have gone three or more days without power, water or both. Texas has had winter weather before, so what went so wrong this...
After the Senate vote failed to convict former President Donald Trump, a clearer picture of the political consequences is emerging — both for the Repu...
There's evidence of at least seven U.S. variants of the coronavirus, while another that emerged from the U.K. is poised to become the dominant strain...
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, says more than 60 countries around the world are using COVID-19 as an excuse to skirt international law by c...
