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An important vote is expected soon in Russia. St. Petersburg residents will decide on dressing a 16-foot replica of Michelangelo's David. A woman complained the naked statue "warps children's souls."

Few details were released for Tuesday's meeting of the Hillsborough College District Board of Trustees. It's not clear whether any subsidies other than donating public land would be involved.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Deann Borshay Liem, who was born in South Korea and adopted into an American family, about the Korean government admitting adoption agencies engaged in malpractice.

The Army has unveiled plans to require identical fitness tests for men and women in combat positions. The debate over women in combat is an old one.

COVID-19 cases are once again recording a summer spike with some of the highest weekly case reports seen this year. But what is our relationship with COVID four years after the pandemic outbreak?

When the USS Eagle sank eighty years ago off the coast of Maine, it was ruled an accident. Now it's known to be one of the last US ships sunk by the Germans in World War Two, and the crew is recognized with a memorial.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince about the acting prime minister's request for security after gangs last week massacred at least 70 people in a rural community.

To help prop up the U.S. economy during the pandemic, the Federal Reserve has bought more than $1 trillion worth of bonds. Now, the central bank is beginning to talk about ending that program.

"It's wild. There's people out here that have just created a chain," said one woman who showed up to volunteer at a YMCA in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood.

President-elect Donald Trump is making a lot of promises about the economy — and many of those involve tariffs. But those tariff promises may be hard – or even impossible – to keep.

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord strengthened the muscles of three people with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare motor neuron disease.

With an executive order targeting the government's former top cybersecurity official, Chris Krebs, President Trump has brought the weight of the presidency and DOJ down on a perceived enemy — and a private American.

The Trump administration will require that all new vaccines get tested against a placebo, a move that could make it harder to make new vaccines available, including the next COVID-19 shots.

Eight million federal student loan borrowers are waiting for the courts to decide if the repayment plan they're enrolled in -- President Biden's SAVE plan -- is essentially so generous that it's illegal.

Donald Trump says he would use local law enforcement to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. But this tactic is unpopular with many sheriffs in border counties.

President Trump is ordering a 25% tariff on all imported cars, beginning next week. The move is intended to boost domestic auto production. But it will likely also make it more expensive to buy a new car.

French President Emmanuel Macron may soon be on the hunt for a new prime minister, the country's fifth since he took office, after a confidence vote the current PM is expected to lose.

The incoming Trump administration has expressed a desire for a big overhaul at the Department of Justice and the FBI.

The Trump administration announced Monday that the FDA will be updating drug labelling to discourage the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women, suggesting a link between the painkiller and autism.

President Trump canceled a meeting to discuss government funding with top Democrats in Congress, leaving no clear path to avoiding a government shutdown next week.

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

The Trump administration appears to be relying on unmarked vehicles in immigration enforcement, NPR has learned.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the witness stand for the third straight day, testifying in a federal antitrust trial that could threaten his business empire. Hear the latest from the trial.

European Union leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday to decide on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine's war effort.

The Trump administration has regularly vilified the mainstream media but not when it comes to the capture of Nicolas Maduro.