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1562 episodes transcribedFormer 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...
Rosa Brooks, law professor at Georgetown University, recently helped organize an experiment to game out what might happen if the winner on election ni...
The spread of the virus exceeds our capacity to test, contact trace, and isolate those who test positive. Some public health experts say the only opti...
The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google faced questions today from a House subcommittee. Some lawmakers believe those companies have too much...
John Lewis, the civil rights icon and late congressman from Georgia who represented Atlanta for more than three decades, spent his life fighting for e...
This morning in Savannah, Georgia, the first volunteer was injected in a phase-three vaccine trial administered by Moderna and the National Institutes...
More than 25 million Americans have been receiving expanded federal unemployment benefits — $600 a week. Those benefits disappear in days.Congress is...
