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Congress approves fines and prison sentences for persons who disclose critical infrastructure information that businesses want kept secret. The provision is part of the newly passed Homeland Security Act. Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT) speaks with NPR's Bob Edwards.

A deck of cards will decide who gets to deal with government problems in Esmeralda County, Nevada, and in South Florida, the game isn't over until the judge rules.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Dr. Hyung Chun, professor of cardiology at Yale and senior author of a study in COVID breakthrough cases, on vaccine misinformation following the death of Colin Powell.

North Carolina is a swing state with a Senate seat coming open. On the Republican side, the former president made an early endorsement, seeming to set the positioning for the GOP hopefuls.

He's had quite a September. Bedford has just been named a MacArthur Fellow and was also awarded a $9 million, 7-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for his work on the pandemic.

President Biden's push for vaccine mandates is supported by a majority of voters, but it marks a break with his previous unifying tone — a sign that Democrats see pandemic politics changing.

Filmmakers Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra are both winners of MacArthur Genius grants this year. The married couple do separate but related work dealing with immigration and migrant labor.

Millions of Americans have been exposed to a tremendous rise in wildfire smoke in recent years. People in rural Northern California are seeing some of the longest periods of smoke.

Energy prices are going up — for things like coal, natural gas and crude oil. On Tuesday, global crude oil prices topped $80 a barrel for the first time in nearly three years.

Cherokee Nation officials say their community has been disproportionately harmed by the opioid crisis. The drug companies deny any wrongdoing.

Government scientists warn climate change, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common.

President Biden resisted mandates to avoid politicizing COVID-19 vaccinations further, but partisanship has become a leading factor in vaccine resistance.

The National Women's Soccer League fired Burke after officials launched an investigation into allegations of harassment and a toxic work culture.

It's not what is in the legislation to upgrade roads and bridges — a topic that usually draws bipartisan support — but rather how the House Democrats tried to package it with a larger spending bill.

Northern California has seen dramatic increases in wildfire smoke in recent years. An investigation from the California Newsroom collaborative shows it is affecting rural schools in particular.

One year ago Donald Trump infamously said of the far-right Proud Boys, "stand back and stand by." Some members are now in jail, but the once-fringe group hasn't gone away.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to veteran diplomat Richard Haass, who argues Biden's foreign policy doesn't differ that much from Trump's or Obama's. Haass calls it "the post-post-Cold War era."

With vaccinations on the rise, ski resorts are hoping for much more normal operations this winter. But they're having to get creative to find workers.

This week in 1971, Disney World opened to visitors. Walt Disney secretly acquired 40 square miles of land and unveiled his plans that would reshape the theme park industry and central Florida.

The law has kept people from falling into homelessness during the pandemic. But many say rental assistance money has been hard to access.

The NEA Jazz Master died Tuesday from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 79.

The eight-division world champion and Philippines senator on Wednesday announced his retirement from the ring, ending a nearly 30-year career in boxing.

We don't know the full impact of nonfatal firearms-related injuries. Unreliable data and political pressure have obscured the picture for researchers, the media and the public. That may soon change.

With COVID-19 vaccine mandates taking effect around the country, requests for religious exemptions are on the rise. Under federal law, employers have a lot of discretion in granting the requests.

A bipartisan pair of senators is reintroducing a bill to safeguard against abuse in the guardianship system.