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Renee Montagne talks to Adam Szubin, acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department, about efforts to financially isolate and cripple ISIS.

President Obama began his State of the Union Tuesday night with what he called a fact: The United States of America now has the strongest most durable economy in the world, citing 14 million new jobs.

With the pandemic having closed nearly 20% of restaurants nationwide, the traditional version of restaurant week is at risk. So restaurants are either opting out or modifying their approach.

With Christmas around the corner, many Americans tracking their packages find them stuck in the same spot for days. The U.S. Postal Service blames increased volume and the pandemic.

The negotiations that led to an expected deal between the U.S. and the Taliban excluded the Afghan government. But Afghan officials are waiting with hope –- and concern — for the next step

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, about the protests around the U.S. sparked by George Floyd's death.

The midterm elections will determine which party controls the House and Senate for the next two years — and that could have a major effect on the future of U.S. health policy.

Retail spending rebounded strongly last month after three months of decline. The jump was fueled partly by $600 federal relief payments, which hit people's bank accounts at the beginning of the month.

Irma's earliest American victims fear they will be forgotten by the mainland. Largely reduced to wreckage, the U.S. territory is now struggling to pick up the pieces.

If Russia invades, "there will be an even greater form of brutality because this will not simply be some conventional war between two armies," President Biden's national security adviser says.