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Some Democrats are pushing for changes to the social safety net to address needs of people during the pandemic and beyond. Moderates caution the need for reassessing plans and bipartisan changes.

Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, took questions Tuesday from lawmakers about the voluminous report his office released last week.

Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen had long worked to encourage breastfeeding. When she became a mother, she experienced just how challenging it could be.

Several people identifying as LGBT went before a Senate committee to tell their stories of discrimination. They want lawmakers to approve a bill that...

An exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art highlights intricate gold work that nearly disappeared — as well as its past ties to a morally complicated group of powerful women.

David Greene talks to David Soucie, a former FAA flight accident inspector, about the Boeing 737 Max 8, the aircraft involved in the fatal crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on Sunday.

NPR's Michel Martin asks James Garcia, a deacon at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., to explain his open letter calling on Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign.

A young writer gets a clerical job with the book agent representing J.D. Salinger in My Salinger Year, a movie based on the memoir by Joanna Rakoff.

It was the first hearing for a Republican-backed bill that requires K-12 and college students in Ohio to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates.

Senators who attended a classified intelligence briefing focused on TikTok's influence say the public should get the same information. There's bipartisan support for a vote on a House bill on the app.