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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade about why she was surprised by Paul Manafort's relatively light sentence and about federal sentencing guidelines.

From engineering to economics, from painting to planetary science, the range of this year's class is vast. But the MacArthur Foundation expects them all to do big things with their newfound $625,000.

Final arguments were given on Thursday in the murder trial of Jason Van Dyke, who shot teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014. The killing sparked weeks of unrest and resulted in political fallout.

National and state officials are investigating a collision that occurred Saturday in Schoharie, after a stretch limousine blew past a stop sign. The driver, all the passengers and 2 pedestrians died.

The legislation is a response to police killings of unarmed black men such as Stephon Clark. But critics say it doesn't go far enough.

After someone serves their prison time, pays their debt to society, they often face another round of actual debt. Fees can pile up, and often, the fees have nothing to do with the crime.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Philippe Etienne, France's ambassador to the U.S., about Iran, climate change, and what hopes he has for the U.S.-France relationship in the Biden administration.

Perseverance landed safely on the red planet on Thursday, immediately getting to work with a first photo of the rover's "forever home."

By July, India aims to vaccinate 300 million of its 1.4 billion people. But with COVID-19 infections already declining, some Indians don't see the need — and clinics have more doses than recipients.

A pair of reports published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday sheds new light on the approximately 375,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. last year.