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The senator from Iowa said he had been isolating since announcing his exposure to the virus on Tuesday. He is third in line for the presidency.

President-elect Joe Biden has named several members of his White House senior staff as the transition efforts for the new administration continue.

The rapper is facing a federal charge of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. His attorney calls the weapon in question a gold-plated handgun that was packed in luggage and never brandished.

The U.S. Senate continues to take up President Biden's nominees for key roles.

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells NPR that strong testing results for both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are "a very, very important advance" in trying to stop the coronavirus outbreak.

Angus Young and Brian Johnson discuss the band's new album, a tribute to Young's late brother Malcolm and an unlikely comeback from all kinds of loss.

A new study finds that unless Congress breaks its impasse, millions of Americans will lose "life-saving" jobless benefits at the end of December, and that could spell financial ruin for many.

NPR's Rachel Martin checks back in with four mothers as part of our series called Learning Curve, which examines how COVID-19 is changing education. The last time they talked was about six weeks ago.

A recent shake-up in senior leadership at the Pentagon has raised a lot of questions. Those questions increased with news about the administration's plan to pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

President Trump fires the nation's election security czar. A recent shake-up in Pentagon senior leadership raises many questions. Up to 12 million Americans could lose jobless benefits after Dec. 25.

The leader of Big Thief performs five songs from a camper in Joshua Tree for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.

Corporate jargon endures, even thrives. I'll loop you in. Deep dive. Best practice. Moving forward. The use of such phrases can often be tied to where people stand in a social hierarchy.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Andy Slavitt, ex-acting head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration head, on COVID-19 vaccine efforts.

The 47-50 vote came as Sens. Mitt Romney and Susan Collins sided with Democratic senators to preserve a filibuster of Judy Shelton's confirmation. Two other Republicans missed the vote.

More than half of labs are reporting they're running short on test kits, pipettes and crucial chemicals.

What it means for the U.S. to be on the sidelines of another major trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which 15 countries agreed to Sunday.

After four years of the Trump administration sidelining career diplomats, the head of the Biden transition team for the State Department is pushing to revitalize the agency and make it more diverse.

It's a 75 foot Norway Spruce with some noticeably crooked branches. There were plenty of comparisons to the sparse, drooping tree from A Charlie Brown Christmas. It might be just the thing for 2020.

Remarkably few counties shifted in the 2020 election, which saw sky-high turnout. The president's base voted in big numbers in rural areas, but Biden's gains in the suburbs propelled him to victory.

Along with state polls, national polls may have been significantly further off from the election results than in 2016. Many appear to have missed support for Trump and down-ballot GOP candidates.