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Pam Fessler is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk, where she covers poverty, philanthropy, and voting issues.

Ayesha Rascoe is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and the Saturday episodes of Up First.

Federal Judge Sandra Beckwith called Christopher Cornell's plot to bomb the U.S. Capitol and kill the president and government workers during the 2015...

Also: Kuwait will mediate in Qatar's rift with Arab nations; comedian Bill Cosby's sex assault trial opens; and Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus is over, although CDC travel warnings remain.

In the wake of the apparently deliberate crash of a German airliner, carriers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia say they will emulate a U.S. rule requiring two people in the cockpit at all times.

U.S. immigration agents arrested 114 people at an Ohio landscaping company on Tuesday, in one of the largest such stings in recent years.According to U.S.…

Someone in New Jersey overcame the odds Tuesday night and won the $1.12 billion Mega Millions jackpot, breaking a winless streak that dated to last December.

Tropical Storm Chantal grew in strength as it approached the southeast U.S. coast. It's forecasted to bring heavy rains to parts of the Carolinas on Sunday.

Only one company makes the currently used monkeypox vaccine. Supply is limited in wealthy nations like the U.S. Less well-off nations, like Nigeria, where the outbreak began, have no vaccines at all.

The Trump administration is asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the first major court ruling over plans to add a question about U.S. citizenship status to the 2020 census.