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Billions of dollars are on their way to Florida as part of the new infrastructure spending bill. Water projects may be the priority, according to a new report card.

Progressives are pushing for a wealth tax targeted at the ultra rich like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. However, as it turns out, taxing the richest people in the world is easier said than done.

Both parties in Virginia and New Jersey were left to contemplate how Republicans ran well without Trump on the ballot or in office, while Democrats found it hard to hold recent gains in the suburbs.

"If she does not make it past the coming winter, I hope the world will remember her as she once was," Zhang Zhan's brother said. She posted videos of Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic.

Seven-year-old Ji-Young is Korean American. She loves her electric guitar just as much as her skateboard, and she'll be introduced to the Sesame Street gang during Thanksgiving day special.

On this week's episode, the family tries to hold on to Waystar Royco, and Logan's health takes an alarming turn for the worse.

House managers are wrapping up their arguments today in President Trump's impeachment trial. Today's focus is on the second article of impeachment: obstruction of Congress.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Brooks of The New York Times and Matthew Yglesias of Vox about the ongoing impeachment trial and President Trump's comments this week.

At the end of President Trump's first term, NPR revisits people it talked with before his inauguration. He confirmed the worst fears of some and the greatest hopes of others.

After a year away, an NPR reporter returns to Lebanon to find a country racked by inflation, degraded services and the pandemic and still picking up the pieces from August's explosion in Beirut.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with two conservative members of Generation Z in California about how it feels to have conservative political views in an overwhelmingly blue state.

In 2016, Black voters were the top target of foreign disinformation campaigns. In 2020, there are both foreign and domestic efforts to dissuade Black and Latino voters from casting ballots.

Two Republican Michigan lawmakers are invited to the White House as Trump contests election results. We discuss if testing is a safe strategy for holiday travel. And, Mike Pompeo visits Israel.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been called the Trump of the Tropics. His environmental and other policies are expected to face closer scrutiny if Joe Biden is elected the next president.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Ginsberg, a top Republican election lawyer, about Supreme Court rulings that blocked an attempt to challenge ballot deadlines in two swing states.

After 5-year-old Naomi Pascal lost her beloved stuffed animal during a hike, her family wasn't sure it would ever turn up again. One park ranger's kind heart changed that.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Anna and Joerg Winger, creators of the television series Deutschland 89, about the show's premiere.

The U.S. economy rebounded sharply during the last three months, growing at a record quarterly pace of 7.4%. However, the economy has not yet recovered from the damage done by the pandemic.

On Thursday, a man killed three people with a knife in a Catholic church in Nice. A second man, who was threatening passersby with a gun, was shot dead by police in the town of Avignon.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Joe Valiente, emergency management director for Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, about damage caused by Hurricane Zeta to the area.

Michigan open-carry advocates are challenging state officials' ban on bringing weapons into the polls next week, as some voters and poll workers fear intimidation.

The ogre-faced spider hunts at night. In addition to its night vision, researchers have now found that the spider can hear the sounds of predators and prey, using hairs on its legs.

Former coal miner Jack Horne of Kentucky died last week from advanced black lung disease at the age of 66. Horne was featured last year in an NPR and PBS Frontline investigation into the epidemic.

People in Atlanta have gathered Tuesday to commemorate Rayshard Brooks. He was a Black man shot and killed by police after he had fallen asleep in a Wendy's drive-through.

Major employers say a White House proclamation suspending the entry of many foreign guest workers will hurt — not help — the U.S. economic recovery.