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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is the earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer. Written by Austin Reed in the 1850s, it was discovered at an estate sale in 2009.

The trial against Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera continues in Brooklyn. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Alan Feuer of The New York Times, who's been covering the trial.

For all the formality of an Oval Office address, the partial shutdown is no closer to being over, and Democrats and Republicans are living in very different worlds when it comes to immigration policy.

HUD says it is releasing more than $8 billion in aid to Puerto Rico. The deadline to do so was in September. The aid is for rebuilding after devastating Hurricanes Maria and Irma struck in 2017.

NPR's Sam Sanders, host of the NPR podcast It's Been A Minute, talks to comedian Bowen Yang about the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live, and navigating queer and Asian identities on the show.

The House Judiciary Committee is taking the baton from the Intelligence Committee for a new phase in the impeachment inquiry. The White House now must decide whether to participate.

Some census advocates are worried the agency isn't moving fast enough to hire the enormous number of workers it needs to carry out the 2020 count.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. and a physician, about congressional efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp says he is reopening the state based on White House criteria. Soon, hair salons, gyms, restaurants and movie theaters can open despite some opposition and fear.

No Gulf Arab country will seriously contemplate normalizing ties with Israel unless Saudi Arabia does it first. The Saudis, who officially condemned the annexation plan, are nowhere close to doing so.