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Whether the senator can still keep that electoral insurance policy rests in the hands of Kentucky Republicans this weekend. Kentucky law prohibits it, but his backers are trying to change that.

As anxious and dispirited voters trudge to the polls, we look at what they're thinking about on Election Day.

It's now a star-studded video from the U.N.'s Project Everyone, and it's going viral. We ask some globally-minded girls: Does it do a good job promoting gender equality?

A last-minute win over Notre Dame keeps the University of Southern California's long unbeaten streak alive. The wild ending was just one of several in a big week of college football. John Feinstein and Steve Inskeep discuss the developments.

Parents of young children in rural communities are facing tough choices between child care and their jobs — and in some cases, their homes.

A man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then firing on motorists on a busy interstate highway, just days after being released from prison, police said.

The Boy Scouts of America has decided to allow openly gay Scouts to join the organization but not gay Scout leaders. Sixty-one percent of the National Council members who cast ballots supported the controversial proposal.

Thousands of people are gathering for the March on Washington 2020, which is being led by families of Black people killed by police officers. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to WAMU's Jenny Gathright.

The NFL commissioner's comments come in an interview with ESPN. In recent days the commissioner has apologized for the league "not listening to NFL players earlier" on issues of racial injustice.

NPR's Noel King speaks with civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who sits on the legal team of Breonna Taylor's family.

http://66.225.205.104/JR20120314.mp3The Charlotte Knights are making their formal pitch this week for city funding to help build a new stadium in uptown…

Women's issues were back front and center in politics on Wednesday after Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said in a debate Tuesday night that when a rape results in pregnancy "it is something that God intended to happen." Democrats pounced and Mitt Romney distanced himself from the remarks. But the Romney campaign did not ask Mourdock to pull down a TV ad Romney taped for him. Mourdock is in a tight race with Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly in an overall fierce contest for control of the U.S. Senate.

From Calleja to Abbado to Grosvenor, read about and hear some of the winners from this year's highly prestigious awards ceremony, held today in London.

Ben Crump has long represented families of Black people killed by police. Crump says accountability is one thing, but "justice would be them still here with us living."

With restricted indoor dining and a need for social distancing, many cities closed streets to vehicles to allow for more walking, biking and outdoor dining. Some of those changes may be here to stay.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum about the state of police training for the U.S.'s 800,000 officers.

Tens of thousands were forced to flee and hundreds of homes burned after high winds pushed wildfires across several communities outside Denver.

Once contracted to big labels, orchestras are now releasing their own impressive recordings.

We discuss protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as the president's Friday briefing, during which he did not mention the nationwide protests, or the pandemic.

U.S. Justice Department and Seattle officials seek an end to most federal oversight of the city's police department, saying its sustained reform efforts are a model for other cities.