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President Biden is only the nation's second Catholic president, but his position on abortion rights is at odds with the church.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jamal Greene, co-chair of Facebook's independent oversight board, about what will happen next with President Trump's suspended account.

From her convent on a sacred mountain, Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades — a feminist medical doctor with a Ph.D. in public health — is a prominent leftist and leading advocate of Catalan independence.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is millions of dollars ahead of the Republicans in fundraising, especially among the small-donor faithful.

On Wednesday, the Chicago Cubs play their last game before the start of a major renovation that includes installation of a video scoreboard, among other giant video screens.

Host Guy Raz talks to The Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of the National Cathedral, who is calling for stricter gun control in the wake of the mass shooting in Connecticut. In his sermon Sunday, Hall said the National Cathedral would become a focal point for taking on the gun lobby.

Police investigating the Sandy Hook shootings say they have weeks of work ahead of them. Dozens of interviews, including of traumatized school kids, remain. Host Guy Raz gets the latest in the investigation from NPR's Carrie Johnson.

At the United Nations, President Obama made the case for American intervention in the Mideast to counter ISIS, but called for an international response against that threat and others.

The FBI released a report on Wednesday detailing the 160 "active shooter" incidents between 2000 and 2013, which included the mass shootings at Virginia Tech and Newtown. A key finding: the average number of incidents nearly tripled in the second half of that period compared to the first half.

A debate has flared surrounding ethics in video game journalism and the role and treatment of women in the video game industry. Attacks online have turned heated, vicious and ugly.

This season a dozen new network TV shows feature non-white characters as leads or co-leads. The shows aren't just notable for their casting diversity, but for how they talk about race and culture.

Cadillac, the luxury division of General Motors, is leaving Detroit and moving to Manhattan to be closer to the headquarters of other high-end brands.

The U.S. launched another round of airstrikes inside Syria on Wednesday, again targeting the group known as the Islamic State.

Melissa Block speaks with Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute, about how U.S. strikes on ISIS impact the Bashar Assad regime.

The shooting in Newtown, Conn., is likely to have an impact on many children, even those nowhere near the state. Host Guy Raz is joined by NPR's Jon Hamilton to talk about how parents, teachers and others who spend time with kids should prepare to discuss the event.

Russian lawyer and blogger Alexei Navalny is the darling of protesters and the bete noire of the Kremlin. His fight against economic corruption made him famous — as did his nickname for the allies of Vladimir Putin: "the party of crooks and thieves." And his arrest this week for protesting against alleged fraud in the recent parliamentary election is likely to raise his profile even higher.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Janice Nimura about her new book, The Doctors Blackwell, which tells the story of two of the first women medical doctors, sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell.

A report gathers the views of mayors from cities across the U.S. about policing in their cities, law enforcement relationships with residents of color and police funding.

Newly confirmed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, are stressing a return to diplomacy and multilateralism in their messaging.

Mourners gathered Wednesday in Atlanta to remember baseball great Hank Aaron, a civil rights advocate who broke Babe Ruth's home run record. Aaron was one of the most beloved players in the sport.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Judette Louis, president of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, about the lack of data on how COVID-19 vaccines affect pregnant people.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg about the Biden administration's priorities for the Department of Transportation.

A group of amateur stock investors has banded together on Reddit to take on a Wall Street giant in a fight for the value of the stock for GameStop. For now, the little guys are winning.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is under criticism from lawmakers in her party after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. NPR looks at how voters are reacting to her decision.

More and more people are turning to social media for information. And not all of it is true. This new practice, researchers say, is making it hard for people to make good decisions about medical care.