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With governments ordering some public places to close during the pandemic, "speak-easy gyms" are popping up across America — and some have even managed to increase their memberships.

President Trump's nominee to the Federal Reserve board, Judy Shelton, has been a lightning rod. Critics question her unconventional economic views as well as her political allegiance to the president.

Dozens of major fires are burning in California. The state is enduring a heat wave that's also forcing rolling blackouts. Thousands are under evacuation orders while trying to socially distance.

Steve Bannon, President Trump's former political adviser, was among four people arrested Thursday in connection with an online fundraising scheme to pay for part of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Thousands of people are gathering for the March on Washington 2020, which is being led by families of Black people killed by police officers. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to WAMU's Jenny Gathright.

Protests in Portland, Ore., have de-escalated since state troopers took over from federal law enforcement last week. But the truce is fragile, and some worry things could turn bad again.

Trump's false claims on Fox News about the near immunity of children to COVID-19 stirred Facebook and Twitter to pull video of him saying so. NPR talks about the president and misinformation.

The federal agency that naturalizes U.S. citizens is dealing with budget cuts, backlogs, and possible furloughs. People who won't become citizens before November won't be able to vote.

Two races in north Georgia show just how far to the right the Republican party has veered. The state as a whole, however, is seen as a tossup in the general election.

Federal and state eviction bans, put in place during the pandemic, have lapsed. President Trump's executive order to prevent evictions isn't enough and Congress needs to act, housing activists say.