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The day after Thanksgiving is still the busiest shopping day of the year. But, for many reasons, it is losing its status as the focal point of the holiday shopping season.

NPR member station photographers and reporters captured what Super Tuesday looked like nationwide.

President Trump had called the seven-to-nine-year sentence prosecutors had initially sought "unfair." His Justice Department then requested a lesser sentence.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has directed the clerk of the House to remove the portraits of four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy.

Dr. William Dement of Stanford University, who was known as "the father of sleep science," died after a heart procedure on June 14 at the age of 91.

Cindy Neuroth of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, talks about how the pandemic affects her job as a sanitation worker. Much of the garbage she picks up is unbagged, and she's worried about her safety.

The U.S. Public Health Service has won congressional authorization for a ready reserve of doctors and nurses to deploy across the country.

Using advanced techniques such as scanning electron microscopes, a team of researchers concluded that all 16 scroll fragments at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., are modern forgeries.

President Trump says he will send the U.S. military if states don't do more to quell unrest. The protests follow the death of George Floyd who died in the custody of Minneapolis police.

Jason Kander, an Army veteran and former Missouri secretary of state, dropped out of the race for Kansas City mayor on Tuesday, citing his struggles with PTSD.