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Wall Street Journal reporter Andy Pasztor joins NPR's Ailsa Chang to discuss his reporting on Southwest Airlines' lapses in its airplane maintenance records.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is the nation's largest health care system. Critics say the coronavirus will overwhelm it, but VA secretary Robert Wilkie says his department is ready.

Border authorities near San Diego have discovered a tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico more than 4,000 feet long. Such tunnels have been used to smuggle drugs and people into the United States.

Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that have inundated ICUs, the Southern California county is also asking ambulance crews to conserve bottled oxygen.

The Iranian-Dutch singer and producer performs four songs during her Tiny Desk quarantine set.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonathan Lee Walton, dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity, about the political ads taken out against Georgia Senate runoff candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock.

After months of waiting, and days of Congressional back-and-forth, qualified Americans are again receiving a second stimulus check.

Severe cases of COVID-19 can injure the brain in ways that affect memory, thinking and mood for months after the infection is gone, new research hints. It may even raise the risk of Alzheimer's.

The crisis starts around 2 a.m. at a hospital in Mendocino County, Calif. A compressor gives out, giving the staff two hours to use the coronavirus vaccines before they are declared unusable.

Renee Montagne talks to Molly Ball of The Atlantic about fractures within the Republican Party and the future of the GOP after the shutdown.

President Obama delivers a statement Monday about the technical issues consumers have been experiencing in signing up online for health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. Steve Inskeep talks to NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson for a look ahead at the president's remarks and a sense of what the political impact has been so far.

While daily new infections have declined somewhat, more than 1,000 Germans are dying per day. All 16 German states are in favor of keeping restrictions in place.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spearheaded the drive to shut down the government by trying to defund the Affordable Care Act. The GOP's image has taken a hit because of that effort, but Cruz is more popular than ever among Tea Party and conservative voters.

After three years of disagreement and rising frustrations between the two U.S. allies, Saudi and Qatari leaders met Tuesday to sign an agreement that lifts current restrictions on Qatar.

COVID-19 has hit hard in Miami's low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. Outreach teams are meeting people where they live, answering questions and connecting people to free testing.

Bill Murray plays Franklin D. Roosevelt in the new movie Hyde Park on Hudson. Critic Kenneth Turan says Murray's work beautifully conveys the notion of the chief executive as seductive star performer who counts on his charm to get his way.

Enrique Tarrio was arrested on Monday shortly after arriving in D.C., where Trump supporters are gathering to protest the official certification of the Electoral College ballots on Wednesday.

Actress Tanya Roberts died Monday after representatives mistakenly announced she'd died earlier, then retracted their statements.

In its most detailed comment so far, the U.S. government says the breach of government and private company computer networks "will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate."

After his slim victory was certified by the state, Pennsylvania Senate Republicans refused to seat Democratic state Sen. Jim Brewster, saying they will "review" the outcome of the race.