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Attorney General James Uthmeier told the NFL its guidelines to improve diversity hiring in leadership positions are discriminatory and ordered the league to stop using it.

GOP presidential contenders met on the debate stage. Donald Trump is expected in Georgia to answer election meddling charges. Head of the Wagner mercenary force is reported dead in a plane crash.

Trump legal woes put GOP candidates in difficult positions. White House taking steps to manage advances of AI. Pentagon files reveal flaws in U.S. claims about Syrian casualties in Baghdadi raid.

Alan Greenblatt has been covering politics and government in Washington and around the country for 20 years. He came to NPR as a digital reporter in 2010, writing about a wide range of topics, including elections, housing economics, natural disasters and same-sex marriage.

Amita Kelly is a Washington editor, where she works across beats and platforms to edit election, politics and policy news and features stories.

It’s been a decade of wild swings and weather extremes in Florida. Record-setting temperature and precipitation trends were noted during the first half...

There are a handful of key races that could indicate how big (or small) a GOP wave is coming on election night and afterward.

The Russian invasion spread families of one kindergarten class in Kharkiv across the world and forced families to make choices about how to deal with trauma manifesting in the country's youngest.

Last year, Alabama failed to execute two men by lethal injection. The state will again try to execute a man using the same method. What do the failed attempts mean for the future of lethal injection?

Russians welcome prisoner swap amid worries over war in Ukraine. Tech companies cut tens of thousands of jobs. Eight teams keep their World Cup hopes alive.

The new CEO of The Washington Post and his hand-picked news chief come from a tradition of rough-and-tumble British journalism that plays loose with ethics, compared to U.S. media.

Justin Bieber released a sequel to his album Swag before listeners even had a chance to really sit with the original. The move is indicative of a broader trend.

The world's richest man and high-tech mastermind allegedly was hacked by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. What do you need to know to protect your phone from perhaps less royal attacks?

Tensions are driven by the still-divisive personality of former President Trump, by issues such as vaccines and mandates and by the prospect of big Republican gains in the elections of 2022 and 2024.

The Jan. 6 House committee released its final report. A bipartisan bill in Congress to grant legal status to Afghan refugees is blocked. COVID threatens to overwhelm China's health care system.

Russia is courting new international trading partners since its invasion of Ukraine caused much of the globe to economically isolate it.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the resignation of the head of the NFL players union, and the beginning of the second half of baseball season.

As federal health agencies change their approach to vaccine policy leaving access for COVID shots uncertain, some states are taking things into their own hands.

Over the summer, the Pulse Nightclub tragedy garnered national attention as the worst mass shooting in modern American history. And, while it’s...

Aimee Ledesma didn’t realize recess was something that could be taken away until she started to ask her kindergartner more pointed questions about her...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have drafted more than a million family members into caring for returning wounded and injured troops. They've been called…

Since taking office in January, Florida’s Republican governor has appointed a science officer, established a climate change czar and pledged to spend…

The full House is expected to approve two articles of impeachment against the president. The GOP-led Senate is already making plans for what leaders hope will be a quick trial in January.

Increasing sea rise is going to water down the value of some of the most coveted and expensive real estate in Florida, and insurance rates will go up…

In a night when Eilish, the youngest artist to win Album and Record of the year, might have otherwise been the whole story, the Recording Academy could not quite put its recent scandals behind it.