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Lawmakers are trying to answer how Congress could function if a catastrophe incapacitated members. A 2017 shooting at a GOP baseball practice, the pandemic and Jan. 6 have made the issue more urgent.

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay regulators more than $900 million in fines over last year's London Whale trading fiasco. A handful of rogue traders at the bank lost more than $6 billion in a bad derivatives trading strategy. The traders then concealed the losses from senior executives for weeks. JPMorgan also formally admitted wrongdoing in the settlement with four different regulators.

If Donald Trump continues personally tweeting as president it will be an extension of commanders in chief going around the media. Though, it may also be unorthodox.

The two Democratic presidential candidates are increasing their scrutiny of each other's long records.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Elizabeth Cobbs about her book The Tubman Command.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with lawyer Mike Moore, who is representing several states, counties and cities that are suing opioid manufacturers.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Cris deRitis, deputy chief economist at Moody's Analytics, about the impact of a potential U.S. debt default.

The Supreme Court's unanimous ruling upholds access to mifepristone, a drug used in more than 60% of abortions. The decision shocked some doctors and abortion rights advocates.

This year's winner of our Student Podcast Challenge, junior, Teagan Nam, described how their friends and classmates turned to memes and social media as a coping method.

NPR's Noel King speaks talks to Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan about stripping President Trump of power by invoking the 25th Amendment. Impeaching Trump is the other option.