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President Biden is expected to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

If you think of public preschool as free child care for the poor, you’re behind the times … at least in Mecklenburg County.The county has opened…

The U.S. death toll is the worst in the world, by a large measure. Despite having less than 5% of the global population, nearly a quarter of all pandemic deaths have been reported in the U.S.

http://66.225.205.104/SG20100428.mp3In the old days, a shower for a guy meant using a bar of soap. But now more and more guys are using bottled gel soaps…

Capitol Police said they had intelligence of a militia group plotting to try to breach the Capitol again on March 4. The threat prompted the House to cancel its session for the day.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed at a Capitol checkpoint yesterday. The suspect was later pronounced dead.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Washington Post dance critic Sarah Kaufman about how The Nutcracker ballet is responding to COVID-19 concerns this year.

For decades, Talley was the larger-than-life creative director and editor-at-large of Vogue. His influence was felt on fashion runways, where he pushed to include more Black designers and models.

New York Times columnist Joe Nocera says the Tyco case and similar high-profile prosecutions are having an impact on boards of directors. Several trials involving corporate malfeasance are still pending, including the case against Enron's Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay.

Student loan interest rates reset every May. This year, they're on the rise.

Trump announced the news himself — calling the FBI action unnecessary and attacking it as politically motivated — even though he appointed the FBI director, Chris Wray.

Human remains from the Philadelphia bombing of the MOVE house in 1985 have yet to be released. The bombing left eleven people dead. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July 6, 2022.)

Developers of a proposed pipeline extension that would bring natural gas to North Carolina have withdrawn legal proceedings to acquire land for the project. But the Mountain Valley Pipeline said it's not abandoning the $468 million project.

The host of All Songs Considered listens for the moments when the poetry of a song's lyrics seem woven into its sound. This year, his playlists overflowed.

The biggest culprit was Amazon hefty investment in the electric automaker Rivian, whose value plummeted last year. Amazon also contends with the need to recalibrate after a pandemic-era upsurge.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point Wednesday, which was a smaller increase than the four previous hikes.

Fifteen cities in Italy, most of them in the country's center and south, were under heat advisories. Czech temperatures soared to a new record high. European countries father north also sweltered.

FBI agents fanned out across northern New Jersey today and made arrests in a corruption investigation that includes two mayors. Officials say politics and religion were used to cloak crimes and enrich the suspects.

The former prisoners were tearfully reunited with family and friends at the airport, hugging and crying after years of enforced separation.