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Haspel is the first woman nominated for the CIA's top job. Her covert career and links to waterboarding will likely make for an unusual Senate confirmation hearing with an uncertain outcome.

It's been around in the U.S. for 3 years. It involves the selling of red noses to fight children's poverty. And it's definitely not a joke.

Coloradans are debating a bill that would allow guns to be temporarily taken away from someone who is a significant risk to themselves or to others.

In a new court filing, the Trump administration offers its most thorough explanation to date of why it considers the hit video-sharing app a national security threat.

It took only seconds after Joe Biden was declared the winner over President Trump for a divided country's relief, frustration, anger and joy to begin spilling into the streets.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to director Scott Z. Burns about his new film The Report. It's about a Senate staffer's efforts to investigate and expose the CIA's use of torture.

The elections are seen as a referendum on popular support for anti-government protests that are now in their sixth month. Record numbers of people have voted.

The ship's high-profile christening marks a day of recognition for the thousands of workers that have participated in the project over more than five years.

The plight of Chinese health care workers contracting the coronavirus has prompted front-line medical staff in the U.S. to wonder if they're protected. Hospitals say they're taking steps to prepare.

The Navajo Nation has the third-highest COVID-19 infection rate in the U.S., after New York and New Jersey. The pandemic is exposing a longtime lack of federal funding for Indian Country health care.