NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times about the politics of public mourning.
Census Bureau officials say they can no longer meet the current legal deadlines for delivering the 2020 census results. Some House Democrats have introduced a new bill to grant four-month extensions.
President Trump's vow to "strongly regulate" such platforms comes a day after Twitter added a fact-check label to a pair of his tweets and renews his argument that those sites silence conservatives.
Dozens of House Democrats voted by proxy for the first time under the chamber's new rules. Republicans urged their members not to participate, and are suing to stop it in the future.
President Trump has accused social media platforms of anti-conservative bias and threatened to shut them down after Twitter flagged his tweets about mail-in ballots as misleading.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he has reported to Congress that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China –- a move that may lead the U.S. to withdraw preferential trade status of the city.
Reproductive rights advocates want patients to be allowed to pick up mifepristone at a hospital or clinic. The drug, which was approved 20 years ago, also helps to manage miscarriages for some women.
As states move to expand mail-in and absentee voting in response to the pandemic, the political parties are going to court to make sure the rules do not hurt them in November.
Studies show that social media polarizes its users. The pandemic means more Americans are on it than ever. What does that mean to a nation attempting to govern itself?
Twitter has put a warning label on a tweet by President Trump for the first time on Tuesday. The company says the tweet contains "potentially misleading information about voting processes."