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With the CDC eviction moratorium extended for a final month, efforts are underway to speed up distribution of billions of dollars in rental assistance and set up eviction diversion programs.

Populism and voter discontent defined this summer in politics. NPR explores what insurgent campaigns by Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump suggest about the next phase of the 2016 presidential campaign.

A group of musicians and scientists have used artificial intelligence to complete one of the great what-ifs in classical music: Ludwig van Beethoven's unfinished 10th symphony.

It's now a star-studded video from the U.N.'s Project Everyone, and it's going viral. We ask some globally-minded girls: Does it do a good job promoting gender equality?

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro what he thinks the recent raids on Trump attorney Michael Cohen might mean for the president.

DeSantis reiterated that he would support holding a special legislative session to address the issue if the federal government were to require masks for students.

Activist David Fowler is the moving force behind much of the socially conservative legislation proposed in Tennessee this past year.

President Vladimir Putin's coat and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy's T-shirts can be considered political statements.

In rural Mississippi, the number of doctors per person is among the lowest in the country. Now, a new scholarship program is trying to attract medical students to begin their practice there. The success — or failure — of the program depends largely on the recruiter's ability to pick the right students.

Memes about the advanced placement exams turned up on social media recently. Do they break the rules or do they highlight a deeper issue of inequality?

COMMENTARY Is the presidential candidate who threw promises to Little Haiti throwing a dragnet over it now that he’s President? Candidate Donald Trump...

When Gov. Rick Scott and Education Commissioner Tony Bennett met with school superintendents in April, Florida’s new education standards led the…

Health and hospital officials in two states report that a Trump administration change to how pandemic data is collected has left them unable to access vital information.

The pandemic worsened a longstanding shortage of qualified teachers, especially for rural states in the Rocky Mountain West. Now, some Montana schools are turning to virtual teachers to fill the gap.

Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could reduce the number of scallops harvested this season. Less data about the health of the fishery forces lower limits on harvesting.

The new standards say using terms like "McCarthyism" and "Red Scare" is slander against anti-communists.

The ICE facility in Dallas where three detainees were killed in a shooting on Wednesday is still closed, but many people with scheduled check-ins still showed up the next day, only to be turned away.

Susan Faludi says that, growing up, her father was a "domineering, hyper-masculine patriarch." In her new book, she tries to understand his past and his decision to become a woman.

In Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, Douglas Rushkoff cautions against living in the perennial, virtual now. "It's very hard for us to orient ourselves," he says, "to look forward to things, to join movements with goals, to invest in the future."

President Biden's approval numbers stay steady, bipartisan negotiations continue on infrastructure, and there are reports President Trump says, erroneously, that he will be back in office by August.

"If we were volunteering, then we are no longer experts," one professor said before the University of Florida changed its decision.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed a measure that would have overhauled the state’s alimony laws. It's the third time that supporters of revamping the alimony system have gotten bills through the Florida Legislature only to have them nixed.

President Bush today kicks off a new effort to gain public support for his policy of secret surveillance of phone and e-mail communications without judicial oversight. Alex Chadwick talks to NPR senior Washington, D.C., editor Ron Elving about the building controversy and other issues likely to dominate the week in politics.

Government prosecutors seeking the death penalty against confessed al-Qa1da conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui say it's a waste of time to continue the sentencing phase of the trial, after the judge barred key witnesses. The prosecution was sanctioned after a government lawyer violated strict rules against coaching witnesses. Alex Chadwick talks to Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about the fate of Moussaoui's trial.

Senate Republicans regrouped on Tuesday, as they tried to forge a path forward on health care legislation. The White House and GOP leaders pressed forward with the goal of voting next week.