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A U.S. district judge granted the preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the state’s “vaccine passport” ban, which was signed into law in May by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

More than 8,000 people may have been given a fake COVID vaccine in the spring. A nurse is suspected of making the switch.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on her book Savage Tongues, about a woman exploring the lingering trauma from a sexual assault that happened two decades prior.

No census has been perfect. COVID-19, Trump officials' interference and the Census Bureau's new privacy protections have raised concerns about the reliability of demographic data from the 2020 count.

The New York governor announced he would resign from office after a state investigation found he sexually harassed close to a dozen women. But will he still be impeached?

The relationship between a sitting Florida judge or Supreme Court justice and a Florida legislator “may very well raise serious issues of judicial conduct and disqualification under the Florida code of judicial conduct.”

Every 10 years, state lawmakers use census figures to redraw districts, deciding which voters will get to choose candidates vying for state and federal offices. That time is once again here, and advocates are trying to open up a process they say has been unfairly closed to the public.

NPR's A Martínez talks to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby about moves toward a vaccine mandate, and why it's essential for America's fighting force to be protected against COVID-19.

Lisa Isay, executive director of Bridges Ministries, describes her experiences distributing federal rental assistance in Jefferson County, Ala.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that Israelis and Palestinians are in Washington for separate talks with US officials. The goal is to restart the stalled Mideast peace process.

Commentator Daniel Troy, an Associate Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, says the U-S Supreme Court was right in ruling that Florida's recount process violated federal constitutional rights. He says the decision is consistent with past high court rulings that bar states from treating voters in different counties differently.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Belfast on President Clinton's third and final trip as president today to Northern Ireland. Although he held four hours of talks with leaders of the main parties, the President failed to break the deadlock that is threatening to scuttle their new power-sharing institutions. He made an impassioned plea to them to defend the faltering peace process. While most gave him a warm welcome, a member of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party harangued the President for negotiating with Sinn Fein (shin fayn), the party aligned with the Irish Republican Army.

Noah talks to Martha Joynt Kumar head of the White House 2001 Project. The project is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, independent of any one administration, and designed to provide information on how the White House works for the new president and his staff. There are two aspects to the Project. One will provide written information to new White House staffers about their offices. The second will smooth the nomination process for presidential appointees by preparing a software package to assist in filling out the necessary forms.

The end of this year's election season is also the end for many political websites. At the start of the election process there were dozens of sites offering voters a place to exchange ideas and opinions. Providing quality content was expensive and advertising wasn't as strong as projected. Now many political websites are undergoing strategic makeovers to survive. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kate Starbird, a professor at the University of Washington and a researcher with the Election Integrity Partnership, about what to expect on Election Night.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on President Bill Clinton's trip to Ireland. This trip is billed as a means for Mr. Clinton to show his support for the Northern Ireland peace process to continue. (3:45)

James Murray reports from Toronto that a local church is leading a campaign to perform marriages of gay couples that would be recognized under civil law. The church has begun the process of posting marriage banns for two homosexual couples before the congregation on three consecutive Sundays. Because of a loophole in provincial law in Ontario, the old Christian rite of posting marriage banns is the equivalent of obtaining a marriage license. Legal experts say this case and others like it eventually will force a ruling by Canada's Supreme Court.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Hannah Dreyfus of ProPublica about her investigation into allegations that Liberty University, founded by Gerry Falwell Sr., dismisses reports of sexual assault.

The additional land will more than double the size of the existing Old Miakka Preserve, which is open to the public for hiking, picnicking and wildlife viewing.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on President Clinton's third and final visit as president to Ireland. He met in Dublin with the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, Bertie Ahern. Ahern praised Clinton for his role in brokering the 1998 Good Friday peace accord for Northern Ireland. Before leaving for Belfast, President Clinton urged the parties there to overcome their differences and push the peace process forward. Catholics and Protestants in the British province are deadlocked over the issues of paramilitary disarmament and police reform. The disputes are threatening to scuttle the power-sharing government they established under the Good Friday accord.

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews elections law attorney Ben Ginsberg, who previously served as national counsel to the Bush-Cheney campaigns and the Romney presidential campaign, about what it would take to have a contested GOP convention this year.

NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Claudia Gazzini, Libya analyst for the International Crisis Group, about how ISIS gained a foothold there.

Four years after the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis was rocked by protests over a sculpture that inflamed the indigenous community, a new structure by artist Angela Two Stars helps to make amends.

You've got only 4,000 weeks to live, give or take. While that may come as a brutal dose of reality, it's also an opportunity to think about how you're spending that time.

The Biden administration's program to make community college tuition-free will not become a reality in this round of the president's spending priorities, leaving progressive groups disappointed.