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At a Constitution Day celebration Wednesday night, Attorney General William Barr blasted prosecutors and called a nationwide pandemic lockdown proposal the worst civil rights intrusion since slavery.

In another ruling issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered Elizabeth Holmes to pay $452 million in restitution to the victims of her crimes.

Ukraine presses on with its offensive in the east while it watches the aftermath of the Russian mutiny a week ago.

Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home. He is the longest-serving Republican senator.

President Trump is sending a surge of federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque to help combat violent crime. NPR's Rachel Martin and Cheryl Corley talk about the announcement.

Advocates are concerned the nominees being floated for the Sentencing Commission could adopt more punitive approaches, despite nationwide calls for justice and police reform.

As the coronavirus pandemic has upended normal balloting, a need for more information about how to navigate voting by mail could be particularly acute among young people of color.

After months of wrangling following the Russia investigation, prosecutors aren't going ahead with the case based on the former national security adviser's false statements to the FBI.

After months of wrangling following the Russia probe, prosecutors will not go ahead with the case against Michael Flynn based on the former national security adviser's false statements to the FBI.

Officially, the tiniest state's name remains Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. But the governor jettisoned the latter phrase from state documents, with a vote on it likely to follow.

Iowa became the first state to resume high school sports, allowing baseball and softball players to start competing on June 1. The coronavirus has already disrupted seasons for more than 40 teams.

While much of the country is mired in economic hardship, a small group has emerged richer. They've benefited from a buoyant stock market and tax code changes that have favored the wealthy.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in Miami, where he courted Cuban-American voters Monday. They're one of the few minority communities that vote solidly Republican. In a news conference Monday, Romney suggested voters don't care about a candidate's race.

President Obama said this week he wants to reform the U.S. health care system by the end of the year. Before the recession hit, an estimated 45 million…

The slightest change in support can tip the North Carolina vote in favor of President Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney.An Elon University poll…

http://66.225.205.104/SO20100128.mp3 For decades we've watched cities grow outward - call it suburban sprawl. But in recent years there's been a movement…

In The War Lovers, Evan Thomas tells the story of how a few men, led by future President Theodore Roosevelt, helped to provoke in the American public a fervor for combat that led to the 1898 Spanish-American War.

The history of literature is filled with authors who also performed surgery or scribbled prescriptions. Lynn Neary speaks with two doctors who are also fiction writers — Abraham Verghese and Terrence Holt — about the link between medicine and writing literature.

Children have the gift of magical thinking — and writer Signe Pike thinks adults should, too. She recommends three enchanting tales — of fairies, goblins and folklore — that will fill grown-up children with a sense of wonder once again.

More than 75,000 ballots were cast in our annual summer readers' poll. Here's a printable list of the top 100 winners.