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Vice President Harris joined NPR to discuss the administration's strategy on voting rights as GOP-led states attempt to pass more restrictions and major Democratic legislation is stalled in Congress.

After nearly three decades spent producing massive hits for a long list of (other) legends including Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey, the pair called in some favors for a long-belated debut.

The number of business applications reached 5.4 million last year, surpassing the 2020 record of 4.4 million. In the pandemic, millions of people have decided this is the moment to chase their dreams.

Saturday marked the 50th anniversary of the successful crossing of the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, a key moment in the civil rights movement. Journalist Ethel Payne was there.

A new congressional report finds that financial technology companies enabled fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic.

Some Michigan seniors may be going hungry thanks to the government shutdown. In western Kent County alone, more than 1,300 low-income seniors depend on a government surplus food program. But the USDA has announced that the program is hold until further notice.

Officials are trying to head off possible violent reactions to the verdict, but isn't it weird to be sitting around discussing human behavior like weather patterns?

Elvis Presley recorded his first single on July 5, 1954: "That's All Right." We offer an appreciation of not only Elvis's performance but also the man who wrote that song, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup.

A Univision interviewer asked President Obama if it wasn't true that he had broken his campaign pledge to introduce a comprehensive immigration reform package early in his presidency. That was a place Obama wasn't willing to go.

Protests continue over a police training facility near Atlanta — as construction is already underway, and a petition to get voters to weigh in is stalled in court.

Nearly two years after Hurricane Ian devastated Southwest Florida, for many, the dream of living in paradise is becoming unaffordable. Making the situation worse, because of lax permitting and development following the hurricane, FEMA is hiking the cost of flood insurance in vulnerable coastal communities like Cape Coral.

Florida saw an “impressive” drop in the rate of uninsured adults in 2014 and 2015, the first two years of full implementation of the Affordable Care Act...

Ten GOP Senators offer a counter proposal to Biden's COVID-19 relief bill. Myanmar's military takes control of the country in a coup. Russian protesters demand release of jailed opposition leader.

Chicago is one of several cities where tens of thousands of migrants have strained resources. The city now is now telling many new arrivals that their stays in shelters will be limited to 60 days.

In the early days of the outbreak, Kevin Kwong was among several people who spent days in search of the right diagnosis.

Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa with winds at 150 mph. Storm surges could push as much as 12 to 18 feet over a nearly 100-mile stretch of coastline, from Bonita Beach north through Fort Myers and Charlotte Harbor to Englewood. Rainfall near the area of landfall could top 18 inches.

NPR's Life Kit provides some advice on gift-giving for this mostly remote holiday season.

The FBI's efforts to unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is one fight in a larger global conflict: Firms face varying laws for police cooperation and say a lack of legal standards is creating a crisis.

More than 70 nations are meeting in The Hague Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan. The conference brings together Afghanistan's neighbors and all nations that contribute NATO troops in the effort to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan.

A 200-year-old beloved tree in northern England, was vandalized and cut down this week. One photographer shares what the Sycamore Gap tree meant to him.

The bookie at the center of a gambling scandal involving the former interpreter of baseball star Shohei Ohtani is to be sentenced. Matt Bowyer is breaking his silence and speaking freely.

According to writer and digital revolution expert Don Tapscott, the classic university lecture model is an outdated way of teaching a generation that has grown up making, changing and learning from digital communities.

An American rock musician born in Freeport on Long Island, N.Y., Lou Reed epitomized New York City's artistic underbelly in the 1970s, with his songs about hookers and junkies. Reed was 71.

Bill Hillmann, a writer from Chicago, contributed to the book Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona. He was gored at this year's running of the bulls in that city, but says he plans to return.

In January 2015, Lauren Passell slipped and fell on an icy New York City street, completely breaking her hip. She says one of the people who came up to help her changed her life.