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With the lesson of former President Barack Obama's difficulty in filling vacancies "imprinted on his brain," his staff says, the president sees filling judicial seats as a top priority.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Biden economic advisor Jared Bernstein about the White House push for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, and Republican efforts to scale it down.

Millions of dollars are flowing into state legislative races. Redistricting and the coronavirus are expected to be top of the policy agenda in 2021 and party control could mean everything.

The president has made it clear that he will spend his remaining days in the White House in the same way he spent much of his term in office: fighting.

If confirmed as defense secretary, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin would be the first African-American to run the world's largest employer, with some 2.2 million servicemembers.

Lightfoot is the city's first black female and openly gay mayor. After her swearing in, she laid out a plan to make Chicago "a city that families want to move to, not run away from."

Around 20% of U.S. adults live with chronic pain. Medical schools traditionally haven't dedicated much time to teaching about pain and pain control, but one top school now has a mandatory course.

Emails and interviews detail the extent to which the National Rifle Association helped two of Moscow's agents ahead of the election, Senate Finance Committee Democrats say.

The former top Russia official on the National Security Council detailed how the U.S. ambassador to the European Union was assigned a "domestic political errand" to help President Trump's reelection.

The Senate is beginning its trial after the House voted to impeach President Trump. Here is what you need to know about what led up to this moment and what the president is accused of.