Virginia lawmakers wrapped up the legislative session this week, with three scandal-laden leaders still at the helm. Now, Gov. Ralph Northam is looking forward to his remaining three years in office.
Democrats running for president have endorsed proposals to abolish the Electoral College and expand the number of Supreme Court justices. Some voters want them to go even further.
Plans to use the 2020 census to ask about U.S. citizenship status suffered another major blow. A ruling in Maryland joins earlier ones in New York and California blocking the citizenship question.
For the second time in as many weeks, President Trump has announced plans to put a political ally on the board of the Federal Reserve. Trump complains Fed policies have slowed economic growth.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's office has previously said it found reasonable basis to think that U.S. personnel "committed acts of torture" and other crimes in Afghanistan.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Eliana Johnson of Politico and Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post news regarding Joe Biden, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the latest biography of Barbara Bush.
In a speech before the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union, Biden assured the audience that he had permission to embrace a union worker and put his arm around a child onstage.
The 2020 Democratic candidate and mayor of a majority-white Indiana city has gone on urban radio and spoke to a major civil rights group and has addressed why he once said "all lives matter."