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All 50 states have at least partially eased tight restrictions on businesses, with a mix of policies letting restaurants or stores welcome customers.

Since March, the U.S. has blocked nonessential travel along the U.S.-Canada border to limit the spread of COVID-19. But in northern Maine, the move cut off many longstanding social and economic ties.

For a third night, demonstrations were held near the White House on Sunday. Protesters set fire to vehicles and nearby buildings. They were met with a heavy show of force by authorities.

A special congressional election in Ohio will be the last test of voter sentiment nationally before November's high stakes midterm election — and the…

A spokesman for the president says the leader was targeted by drones armed with explosives during a speech at a military event on Saturday, injuring seven service members.

Speaking Monday at a Capitol ceremony, Sen. Mitch McConnell called Bush "a humble servant who loved his fellow citizens." Bush will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda until Wednesday.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Martha Jones, author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, about the history of the birthright citizenship in the United States.

Some drops in prison populations were offset by increases at local jails, especially in rural areas.

The Justice Department charged another Russian with interference in U.S. elections; Paul Manafort appeared in a Virginia court on Friday.

It is the first national apology on behalf of the federal government since a major report published last year showed the problem was rampant in Australia's Catholic Church and other institutions.