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Ossoff finishes far ahead of the other six Democratic candidates. He will face Republican Sen. David Perdue in November.

Broadcast nationwide in 1934 and praised by listeners and critics alike, a masterful symphony soon fell silent. A new recording hopes to help revive an American treasure.

The House passed legislation crafted in the wake of national protests set off by the death of George Floyd. The bill is not expected to move in the GOP-led Senate, after Democrats blocked GOP bill.

Members of Congress held a hearing to examine the forced removal of peaceful protesters by U.S. Park Police near the White House in early June.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A flurry of federal court rulings this month over whether South Carolinians need witnesses to sign their mail-in ballots this November…

Since Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Sept. 18, politicians, family members and fans of the renowned legal mind have been flocking to…

"The swingiest of swing states." That's what one political scientist dubbed North Carolina. Indeed, we've had some of the nation's closest presidential…

On Friday, President Trump said he would sever ties — and funding — to the World Health Organization because of its relationship with China. On Monday, WHO offers its first official response.

The jazz pianist and longtime host of NPR's Piano Jazz tells her story in a new documentary full of archival footage, family photos and interviews.

Town and MI-Connection Communications System officials said Tuesday that legislation to set new rules for government-owned communications networks won't…

Private space ventures and nations such as China are aiming to potentially leave their own prints in the moon's powdery soil. That's prompted some nervousness about keeping Neil Armstrong's iconic boot print and other artifacts left by U.S. Apollo astronauts safe and secure.

Polls showed public support for the movement falling off significantly. But the Tea Party remains a force in many states. Its favored candidate for the U.S. Senate won big in Texas last week, sending the strongest signal yet that the movement will be a factor this fall.

It can be lonely being a Democrat in the Deep South. In the reliably Republican region, even recruiting viable Democratic candidates can be a challenge. But strategists are looking to nearby states to learn how the party might start to make inroads in such red territory.

The community supported President Obama in 2008, and polls show most are doing so this time around. But some of those voters are concerned about the way Obama has handled issues important to Arab-Americans.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nickea Bradley, Houston's deputy director for emergency management, about the challenges of preparing for hurricane season amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The president is not waiting around for Republicans to come around to his sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. "We can't do too much here. We can do too little," Biden said Friday.

The Postmistress, a new novel by Sarah Blake, tells two stories set during the early days of World War II. In the first, an American radio reporter sends back dispatches from London during the Blitz, and in the second, two residents of a small Massachusetts town respond to those reports.

The president said it would be "tough" to meet the May 1 deadline agreed to by the Trump administration. "The withdrawal must be completed by the first of May," a Taliban spokesman told NPR.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection released photos and video of Texas immigrant processing centers that have faced fresh criticism for overcrowding and poor conditions.

British writer Will Self has a new novel, The Book of Dave. It's the worldly testament of a London cabbie. The ideal man to review it is Will Grozier, a London cabbie who frequently chats with Scott Simon about books.