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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, second-ranking member of House Democratic Leadership, about what the priorities will be if Democrats win control of the House in the midterms.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Here's what we know about him. And, a look at the possible consequences of eliminating the Department of Education.

The Justice Department’s investigation into sex trafficking allegations ended last year with no federal charges against Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

Table saws are dangerous. An inventor came up with a device that could make them much, much safer, but it sparked a decades long fight over the tradeoff of costs and safety. How to balance the two?

Wiles was co-chair of Trump's third presidential campaign and also has deep Florida ties, where she advised gubernatorial campaigns for Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis.

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker extended a temporary restraining order Tuesday, siding with Floridians Defending Freedom. The group created the ads promoting the ballot question that would add abortion rights to the state constitution if it passes Nov. 5. Walker is extending an order that bars Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo from taking any further action to coerce or intimidate broadcasters that run the commercials.

How do European leaders view Russia's new nuclear policy and a potential shift in Ukraine policy under Trump? NPR's Michel Martin asks Jovita Neliupšiene, the EU's ambassador to the U.S.

Scott Simon and Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media discuss Bill Belichick's move to college football and Juan Soto's massive new contract with the New York Mets.

The female teenaged suspect is likely to have died from a gunshot wound, but the cause of death has yet to be confirmed by a medical examiner.

More than 150 are still missing after last week's collapse of a condominium in Surfside, Fla. As crews pick through the rubble, more questions have bubbled up about how this could have happened.

NPR's Books We Love is a roundup of our staff's favorite reads this year. Today we look at some of our favorite, more obscure, lesser-known picks from this year's Books We Love.

Syria's new rulers are forming a government after more than half a century of dictatorship under former leader Bashar al-Assad and his father.

NPR's Scott Detrow tries to spread holiday cheer by reviving an old office holiday tradition: making mulled wine in the microwave at work on Christmas Eve.

Craig Melvin, current news anchor and host of Today's 3rd Hour, has been named Kotb's successor.

Manatee mortality rates for 2021 are projected to reach unprecedented levels in Lee County.

The contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump looks tight and each candidate hopes upcoming debates will shift the campaign in their favor.

Fed policymakers voted to keep their benchmark interest rate at a two-decade high, where it's been since last summer. The stock market rallied on signals that the central bank expects to lower rates.

H-1B visas, the kind many foreign scientists need to work in the U.S. became harder to get in the first Trump Administration. That's likely to happen again.

Independent voters are a major force in Arizona politics and candidates in the highly consequential Senate race are taking note.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Tirana Hassan, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Why was the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States split on allowing or blocking Nippon Steel from buying U.S. Steel? NPR's Michel Martin asks one of the committee's former advisers.

The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions. Among them: who will lead its national party apparatus, and how it will handle President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

There's a divide between men and women voters driven by a host of factors like the presidential candidates' genders, abortion and campaign strategy.

It's an incredible tale of terror, hardship and endurance. Four Colombian children survived a plane crash and 40 days in the Amazon rainforest before being found alive.

Canada is complaining loudly about President Trump's decision to slap its steel exports to the U.S. with a 25 percent tariff. David Greene talks to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.