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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, about the initiative to spend $250 million in grants to reconsider monuments across the U.S.

Gravity Industries teamed up with local paramedics to test a paramedic jet suit in northern England for what could be the future of emergency medical care.

American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, she becomes the 16th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The simultaneous crises of the pandemic and racism against Black Americans led to the creation of an unusual movie theater located in New Jersey's biggest city: the Newark Moonlight Cinema.

They faced bias against women in science. They faced racism because their families come from Africa. And they triumphed in a competition to develop a problem-solving app!

The former police officer faces charges of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd's killing in May. Demonstrators took to the streets Wednesday after he posted a $1 million bond.

The State Board of Elections ruled Thursday that there’s enough evidence to move forward on a complaint against the chairman of the Cabarrus County Board of Elections.

Medical researchers have high hopes that the kind of treatment the president received could end up being an important element in the fight against the pandemic. But clinical trials continue.

The president's doctor on Thursday said Trump has completed his course of therapy for COVID-19, but he did not update the president's coronavirus test results.

Despite this year's Gold Star event landing amid the pandemic, the White House didn't cancel it. President Trump says when he met these family members, he couldn't bear to keep them at arms-length.

The White House accused Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of "sowing division by making these outlandish allegations" in her remarks Thursday.

"Republicans have been trying to drive a stake into the heart of Obamacare pretty much since it was passed — both through legislation and litigation," New York Timesreporter Sarah Kliff says.

Since the pandemic began, many American billionaires have gotten even richer despite one of the country's worst recessions. NPR explores the reasons why and the implications for the future.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Alexia Grant about what it's like to be one of the chefs cooking for athletes in the NBA bubble.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., about why she voted against a new pandemic relief package but criticized President Trump for halting negotiations.

Questions are being raised about a prosecutor's decision not to charge a Wisconsin police officer in the fatal shooting of Alvin Cole. It was the third fatal shooting by the officer, who is Black.

President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden were in Nashville on Thursday night.

In order to keep crew and passengers safe amid the coronavirus pandemic, the ships will make no stops and simply return to the port they came from.

Third District Republican Rep. Greg Murphy posted a tweet Wednesday night that Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris was chosen “for her color and her race.”