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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with McClatchy reporter Gillian Brassail about Kevin McCarthy's long and winding road to Tuesday's vote for speaker in the House of Representatives.

Brazil's Supreme Court granted the request from the prosecutor general's office to include Bolsonaro in the wider investigation, citing a video he posted on Facebook two days after the riot.

Kaiser Health News has released never-before-seen details of federal audits as the government weighs action against dozens of Medicare Advantage plans.

China has been trying to woo back foreign investors and businesses after nearly three years of self-imposed isolation, but a quick economic recovery will also hinge on domestic consumption.

Super Bowl 57 is set with the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs taking on the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles. The big game will be played in Glendale, Ariz., next month.

When a pharmaceutical drug has been on the market a while, it's supposed to go generic and the price is supposed to go down. For blockbuster arthritis drug Humira, that hasn't happened — until now.

Experts say it's a nationwide problem, as older lawyers retire and younger ones opt for higher paying jobs.

US employers added over 500 thousand jobs last month, far more than forecasters expected. The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than 53 years, and President Biden is taking credit.

Russia would have to use tankers willing to get around sanctions to ship its crude to Asia. It's known in the oil industry as a "shadow fleet."

Grady Hendrix's tale of siblings who come together after the deaths of their parents to sell their house fully embraces all the elements readers have come to love about Hendrix's storytelling.

President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law at a White House ceremony.

The novel follows a white working-class girl from age 7 through her late teens, navigating a world tightly circumscribed by class and culture.

Fundraising reports filed Thursday night by the presidential campaigns look a lot like recent public opinion polls. They show President Obama with a slight advantage in monthly fundraising last month — while Republican Mitt Romney has the edge by some other measures.

Web comic artist KC Green just marked the 10th anniversary of his 2013 comic strip that became a popular meme. He reflects on the meme's timelessness and the smiling dog's next chapter.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute about decisions by the U.S. and Germany to send battle tanks to Ukraine, and their likely impact on the war against Russia.

This week's fraud conviction of Lee Farkas, CEO of one of the country's largest private mortgage lending companies, has been trumpeted by federal prosecutors. But opportunities for the Justice Department to crow about victories in financial cases are few and far between.

Results are in for primary elections held in Arizona and Florida. The biggest headline came from Florida's race for governor — President Trump's favored candidate cruised to a win in the GOP primary.

There are two high-stakes GOP primary contests this Tuesday. In Arizona, it's a Senate race to replace Sen. Jeff Flake and in Florida, it's a race for the state's next governor.

The president pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has teased that he could pardon others and this week, the week of Thanksgiving, he will again.

A new poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist suggests a voter's impression of President Trump will factor into that person's vote this November.

The federal government once considered whistle-blowers a nuisance, or worse. But over the past few years, that attitude has slowly started to change. More agencies have been reaching out for tips about fraud and abuse, even if digging through the stacks of complaints can present a challenge.

A House committee meets to consider a report holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress on Wednesday. Holder failed to turn over subpoenaed documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, a botched gun-trafficking operation. Rep. Darrell Issa met with Holder Tuesday in an effort to resolve difference over his panel's subpoena for the documents.

Vice President Joe Biden says his task force on reducing gun violence is facing an unexpected obstacle: slim or outdated research on weapons. Public health research dried up more than a decade ago after Congress restricted the use of some federal money to pay for those studies.

New public opinion polls show distaste for National Security Agency surveillance does not break cleanly across party lines. Despite the administration's attempts otherwise, one new study finds that the more people know about the NSA, the more they dislike it.

President Obama quietly nominated Ronnie White, who was rejected for a federal judgeship in 1999, to the bench last month. Experts say they can't remember a time when a judge who's been voted down in the Senate has been renominated.