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Congress faces a tight deadline to pass a short term spending bill and avoid a shutdown. Also Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell faces questions about his health following a second public episode.

With its spires, rotunda and colorful facade, the Arts and Industries Building is a festive relief compared with its neighbors. But restoring the Smithsonian's first museum hasn't been easy.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's decision not to enforce an unofficial dress code has elicited strong reactions and dominated talk on Capitol Hill, even as a potential government shutdown looms.

A birthday and a spate of bad polls highlight the one weakness Biden cannot really address. He was 78 when he took office. He'd be 86 leaving a second term.

Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden.

The children's album — featuring stories and songs celebrating tolerance, individuality and gender neutrality — debuted in 1972. It would become a TV special, a book, a foundation — and an anthem.

Former Nixon administration attorney John Dean and a North Carolina divorce lawyer warn that if you think you have nothing to hide, think again.

In a prequel to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, director Paul King crafts a musical origin story of Willy Wonka, played by an exuberant Timothée Chalamet.

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Marc Lotter, the Trump campaign's director of strategic communications, ahead of a Trump rally in Tulsa, Okla., and after the Supreme Court blocked efforts to end DACA.