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Some say Black sailors have to navigate both unconscious and active bias in the Navy.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meet on Tuesday to vote on who will get the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. We explore the issues involved.

The state's third largest insurer reportedly has $4.2 billion in financial reserves. The firm's former public policy director says the insurer is "unwilling or incapable" of serving the public good.

Thomas Adès' Concerto for Piano and Orchestra riffs on the old classics while speaking in the distinctive voice of a 21st century master composer.

The drop in inmate populations in New York comes as terrible news in the state's northern counties, where prisons are a big part of the economy. Empty jail beds have led the governor to propose closing four prisons. Some residents are fighting to keep them open.

There are writers on the longlist in five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people's literature. Two debut novels are in the running for the fiction prize.

U.S. marshals gave conflicting accounts of what happened during the killing of antifa activist Michael Reinoehl last month, according to an investigation by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica.

As businesses reopen, tech firms are offering monitoring systems to screen for the coronavirus. They range from apps that ask about symptoms to software that tracks employees' movements at work.

The Glass Fire in Northern California has forced thousands of people from their homes. Among them, residents of Santa Rosa's first government-funded homeless camp, who are now displaced again.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the footage as well as 911 tapes would be released once Wallace's family has reviewed the materials. The Fraternal Order of Police supports the move.

Ahead of soon-to-be former President Trump's Senate trial, constitutional scholars disagree on whether the Founders intended for a president no longer in office to be tried by the Senate.

President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's inauguration. He will attend a memorial service for those who have died of COVID-19.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kimberly Kindy of The Washington Postabout her reporting on how at least 13 off-duty police officers took part in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Most of the oil and gas drilled in Wyoming comes from federal land and communities there are bracing for job losses and school funding cuts in the wake of a Biden administration pause on new leasing.

Watching musician/actor John Lurie paint and grumbly pontificate in an unnamed tropical locale is sometimes puzzling, often intriguing and always soothing.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein sided with Amazon, which argued that Parler would not remove posts from its site that threatened public safety in the wake of the Capitol riot.

As the nor'easter works its way along the East Coast, forecasters warn that parts of the region could see snowfall totals of one or even two feet.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with labor writer and organizer Luis Feliz Leon about the impacts of the pandemic on collective bargaining agreements and workers' efforts to unionize.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Houston Police Department's Chief Art Acevedo about what can be done to root out extremism from law enforcement agencies.

Hammerin' Hank Aaron has died. The right-handed slugger was one of baseball's best all time hitters. As fierce as he was on the field, he was champion for civil rights off the field.