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NPR's Noel King talks to Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

What foods are you scared to attempt in the kitchen? In honor of Halloween, our resident chef tries to exorcise a few common culinary phobias.

Top GOP and Democratic strategists say the global pandemic is shifting the calculations in this November's House and Senate races and could make for an unpredictable year.

Before he became the guitarist for ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons was in a band called the Moving Sidewalks that just missed its shot at stardom. The album the Moving Sidewalks never released in the late 1960s was released in late 2012 and is very much a period piece, albeit a very well-made one.

Kate Bush's song Running Up That Hill peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 four decades ago. This week it became her first-ever U.S. Top 10 hit.

NC State hangs on, UNC gets into a shootout, Duke blanks Temple, 30-0 and William & Mary tops Charlotte, 41-24.

Country music superstar Morgan Wallen is the first artist to have five Top 10 singles from an album that hasn't even been released yet. His highly anticipated album "I'm the Problem" drops in May.

The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why would top U.S. officials use a free messaging app to discuss classified military plans?

Reuters editor Chrystia Freeland traveled the world, interviewing multimillionaires and billionaires for her new book, Plutocrats. She says there's a startling disconnect between those at the very top and the rest of us — one that has the power to transform society in unfortunate ways.

Two degrees from Stanford aren't your usual recipe for hip-hop credibility, but Korean rapper Tablo found success at the top of the charts. That was, until a single rumor set websites ablaze with pop-culture paranoia and conspiracy.

The nation's top intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard, said today that Iran's government still seems to be functioning, though it has been greatly weakened by the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign.

Half of the top 10 spots in 2019's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll went to women. But a deeper look at the data from across the poll's lifetime complicates claims about women's equality in jazz.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia about questioning top Intelligence officials today on Capitol Hill about war plans being leaked in a group chat with a journalist.

Conservative activist Ginni Thomas, who's married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent a number of texts to then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows between November 2020 and January 2021.

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is proposing a spending and borrowing spree that he says is critical to fulfilling education, health care and infrastructure demands evident before the pandemic but exacerbated since.

Gov. Roy Cooper called for stricter gun laws, saying "we cannot normalize the mass murder of children," while Rep, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis warned against curbing gun rights, saying the country must focus on other ways to anticipate and preempt future attacks.

The South Carolina House approved the state's $14 billion budget in one day with little debate over big ticket items. The House voted 108-7 late Monday to give the budget key approval.

Joe Biden leads President Trump in polls, but there are still a lot of things that could change the dynamic, from the coronavirus and the economy to debates and "October surprises."

In places ranging from chicken processing plants to hair salons, workers say employers aren't doing enough to protect them from getting sick. Advocates blame a lack of mandatory federal safety rules.

Several years ago, construction workers in Chile found whale fossils from 6 to 9 million years ago. NPR's Jacki Lyden speaks with Nick Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian, who helped remove the fossils.