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Pam Bondi got full support from Republicans but faced repeated questions from Democrats about whether she would protect the Justice Department from political influence.

This year the United Nations is marking its 80th anniversary, but diplomats don't have much to celebrate.

China's jailing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan highlights a deeper press freedom crisis across Asia.

The left-leaning media outfit has surged in Donald Trump's second term, appealing to progressives outraged by the president. Still, the online streaming world remains dominated by right-wing voices.

Twelve teams will enter October, but only one team will leave (with a ring). You can root for the three franchises that have never won a title before … or you can pull for the Yankees or Dodgers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Plouffe, former advisor to President Barack Obama, about joining the Harris/Walz campaign.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker about the week in politics, focusing on this week's impeachment hearings.

President Trump has fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and named Sen. Markwayne Mullin as her replacement. And, the Justice Department released some missing Epstein files.

The status of a decades-old bunker beneath the now-demolished East Wing is unclear, but the Trump administration has cited security concerns in its legal filings in favor of continuing construction.

Scott Weidensaul has spent decades studying bird migration. "There is a tremendous solace in watching these natural rhythms play out again and again," he says. Originally broadcast March 29, 2021.

2020 election deniers won key races in the GOP primary. New York Times Magazine journalist Robert Draper says the swing state is a bellwether for the rest of the nation.

Duke University recently announced plans to close and re-home its century-old herbarium. But with climate change and a looming biodiversity crisis, scientists say these preserved collections of old plants are more important than ever.

Filmmaker Greg Kwedar and formerly incarcerated actor Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin discuss their new film about the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program founded at Sing Sing prison.

An unreleased CDC review obtained by NPR shows that lab officials knew an early coronavirus test kit had a high failure rate. They decided not to recall it and sent it to the nation's labs anyway.

Sudan's military and a paramilitary group battled for control of the nation. A mass shooting rocks an Alabama town. The $1.6 billion Dominion v. Fox News trial is now scheduled to start Tuesday.

FBI's director will testify before Senate panel about the insurrection. Georgia House passes bill that would limit absentee and early voting. House panel investigates health care provider One Medical.

Two days of North Korean missile tests increase tensions. Ethiopia and Tigray agree to a cease fire. And, Biden sounds the alarm on the state of democracy.

Cooking with plant foods naturally high in compounds called glutamates can stimulate the same taste receptors that meat does. America's Test Kitchen explains in The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook.

What to make of all the student loan news this year? We have three takeaways, and a literary analogy (it's NPR afterall).

Lamar already won the year in a landslide. On his bristly new album, GNX, the rapper aims to change the state of play for everyone else.

Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee.

The Gun Violence Archive reports that shootings across the country this holiday weekend claimed the lives of more than 180 people.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, about Friday's indictment of Steve Bannon and the ongoing investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Rates on federally subsidized Stafford loans, which help low and middle-income college students, doubled on July 1. There is now pressure for a deal to undo the increase. NPR's David Greene talks to Matthew Chingos, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy.