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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia University, about what people mean when they talk about unity and healing during a moment of national division.

Patti Neighmond, an outgoing health policy correspondent who has worked at NPR for 40 years, remembers her favorite story — about a young quadriplegic woman dependent on a ventilator.

President-elect Joe Biden will seek to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of his relief bill. On Friday, workers across the U.S. staged protests to press him to keep the promise.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen and Errin Haines of The 19th about the Capitol riot, President Trump's second impeachment and the incoming administration.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Stephanie Cutter, an executive producer of the upcoming inauguration, about security measures being taken in light of last week's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Millipedes are known to emerge every eight years and bring trains to a screeching halt in central Japan. New research explains how these periodical animals can have this long of a life span.

Manaus in northern Brazil is facing a huge coronavirus outbreak. The health system is collapsing. Oxygen supplies are so scarce that people are suffocating while in their hospital beds.

Political conspiracy theories are pushing some family relationships to the breaking point. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Dannagal Young of the University of Delaware about how to mend those rifts.

Miami is mourning the death of a legal pioneer. Osvaldo Soto successfully fought for the repeal of an "English-only" law in Miami-Dade County. He has died at age 91.

"It's only a matter of time, justice is coming," Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman," said in a handwritten note to Vice President Pence.

The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.

President-elect Joe Biden has released the details of his plans to revamp the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Also, the Trump administration reportedly has used up the second dose reserve.

President Trump made history, the siege on the Capitol exposed splits in the GOP that are likely to remain, Biden's agenda will now compete with a Senate trial and the Capitol is a fortress.

Appropriations Chairman Jay Trumbull says possible assistance from the federal government won't make up for the shortfall.

Sen. Aaron Bean says there is statewide frustration over the state's plans and that Department of Health officials need to provide the public with a “clear direction.”

For decades, the Las Palmas neighborhood on the eastern edge of Everglades National Park has confounded water managers trying to restore the River of Grass, and stood as a warning to compromising on restoration work.

It was the most members of a president's party to vote for his impeachment in history. Many Republicans faced safety threats ahead of the vote, but Trump had gone too far for this group.

A calico cat thought to have died with her owner in the mudslides that swept through California's Santa Barbara County in 2018 has been found and reunited with her late owner's partner.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the nonresidents getting shots are almost entirely people who live in the state for several months during the winter and who could infect others if they aren’t vaccinated.

Jared Moskowitz told members of the House Pandemics & Public Emergencies Committee that the federal government has been slow in meeting Florida's demand for the vaccine.

The positivity rate of people who tested positive for the coronavirus for the first time dropped to 8.63%, the lowest it's been since Dec. 27 when it was 9.69%.

Mask-wearing hit an all-time high, but other COVID-19 precautions are less common now than last spring, a survey finds. Experts worry we're ill-prepared for the spread of more infectious new variants.

Pierce stars alongside Charlie Robinson in a new online production of Some Old Black Man. It's "the classic confrontation of father and son," says Pierce.

There is a high rate of coronavirus among inmates at Alaska's prisons. State health officials say the general prison population should begin to receive coronavirus vaccinations in mid-February.

He said companies such as Amazon, Apple and Google are “actively working to eliminate” any other social media platforms popular among conservatives.