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In 2016, Black voters were the top target of foreign disinformation campaigns. In 2020, there are both foreign and domestic efforts to dissuade Black and Latino voters from casting ballots.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jose Romero, chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization committee, about the committee's recommendations for coronavirus vaccination.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ben Ginsberg, a top Republican election lawyer, on the possibilities of legal challenges to election results.

A team of independent advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a science-based outline for deploying a vaccine when it's ready. The goal is to stop deaths and viral spread fast.

Health care workers are expected to get a COVID-19 vaccine first. But the speed of vaccine development, and the politicization of the process, has left some doctors and nurses skeptical and reluctant.

Republicans have been looking for opportunities to make surprise gains in this November's Senate races. Some polls have shown that even in New York, they might have an outside chance at upsetting freshman Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board's decision to rename Vance High for civil rights attorney Julius Chambers goes counter to what many students at the school had hoped for. But the principal and a senior who served on the naming committee say they think students will warm to the new name.

U.S. movie theaters are struggling to survive during the coronavirus pandemic. But overseas, the film industry is recovering more quickly.

Allegations of physical abuse of teens by staff have sparked a state and federal investigation. Experts say the violence comes as the state tries to make juvenile lockups less like adult prisons.

Hundreds of women are attacked with acid in India each year. A Bollywood film about a survivor-turned-activist — starring a top Indian actress — tackles the stigma.

Drawing on his campaign promise to take action from Day 1 in office, President Biden is set to sign a slew of executive orders Wednesday — including several to reverse Trump administration policies.

President Biden will begin his first full week in the White House. Many of the executive orders he's been signing and will sign this week are part of a plan he laid out for his first 10 days.

Former CEO Michael Pack created such a whirlwind of scandal at the Voice of America's parent agency that it obscured just how much damage he caused. We take a look at the human cost.

NPR's Noel King speaks to former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen about Biden's tough new ethics rules for his administration.

The Biden White House has named Yolanda Lopez acting director of the Voice of America. She was demoted last week after a VOA reporter asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unwelcomed questions.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with John Watson, an associate professor of journalism ethics, about newsroom initiatives to allow subjects of previous crime reporting to reclaim their media narratives.

New research found that wearing a cloth mask over a medical mask significantly boosts protection against droplets that can transmit the virus. Knotting the ear loops of surgical masks also helps.

The onset of North Carolina's famously vibrant fall colors has been delayed by an unseasonably hot start to fall and drought conditions.But Howard…

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Philip Gordon, a former assistant secretary of state, about President Trump's treatment of former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

Zimbabwe's longtime president Robert Mugabe was honored with a state funeral on Saturday — put on by the president and military leaders who had forced him out of office just two years ago.