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Starting with a special law after the Civil War, the U.S. Postal Service has provided a path to the middle class for generations of African Americans. Some worry a privatization push threatens that.

Joe Biden forcefully pushes back against President Trump's campaign message that voters wouldn't be safe under a Biden administration.

Some 70% of those arrested in weekend unrest came from outside the District, police say. Bowser says the U.S. attorney's office has failed to prosecute those who have been arrested in violence.

The Justice Department said its two-year investigation found that race is "the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year." Yale categorically denies the allegation.

With the assistance of foreign partners, more than 1 million barrels of petroleum was seized from foreign-flagged vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, the Justice Department says.

In Ohio, clean energy advocates say it's long been hard to get wind and solar projects approved. Now there are new questions about that after a bribery scandal linked to a controversial energy law.

Eighty-nine percent of elected office holders nationwide are white. But a new analysis of elected office holders shows that Black representation is close to parity in one place.

NPR's Noel King talks to Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro about how some state officials could sue the Trump administration to block reduced mail service ahead of the election.

NPR's Noel King talks to activist Hanna Yahorava about Sunday's protests — in what appeared to be the largest demonstration yet against President Lukashenko's widely disputed reelection.

Delegates in Wisconsin talk about how they plan to stay engaged with the all-virtual Democratic National Convention.