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  • "Hometown Teams" Smithsonian Exhibit Visits Wrather Museum
    Hometown sports are more than just games -- they shape our lives and unite us, celebrating who we are as Americans. The essential qualities of sports --…
  • Democratic Senators File Ethics Complaint Against Cruz, Hawley After Capitol Riot
    Seven Democratic senators have formally filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
  • Stellantis shows off its Ram truck lineup at the Chicago Auto Show in Chicago on Feb. 9, 2023. The UAW ordered 6,800 union members to walk off their jobs at the company's lucrative Ram pickup assembly plant in Sterling Heights, Mich.
    UAW expands its auto strike once again, hitting a key plant for Ram pickup trucks
    The United Auto Workers union expanded its strike against the automaker Stellantis, calling on 6,800 workers at its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant outside Detroit to walk out Monday morning.
  • The presidency has remained a male-only office throughout American history. Despite changing demographics and huge gains by women in other walks of life, some experts still don't see a female president on the horizon.
    Why The White House Glass Ceiling Remains Solid
    Despite all of the possible female candidates waiting in the wings, many political observers express doubt that a woman will be elected president — or even nominated — in the near future. Which is weird. Because in just about every other aspect of American life, women are taking over.
  • West Virginia's plan to fight 2022 misinformation
    NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mac Warner, West Virginia's secretary of state, about a bipartisan campaign by state election officials to fight misinformation ahead of the 2022 vote.
  • Olympic Gymnastics
    Noah Adams talks with sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics trials in Boston. Several members of the women's team which won a gold medal in 1996 are trying to make the team again. Interestingly, women's coach Bela Karoly has been given unprecedented power to select the team from among the top finishers at the trials. Usually, the team consists of the top six finishers at the trials.
  • A deal to get imprisoned Americans home prompts concerns on what Iran gets in return
    NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer about what Iran will get in return for the release of four Americans from the notorious Evin prison.
  • Elouise Cobell, a member of Montana's Blackfeet Tribe, and four other Native Americans led a class-action land use lawsuit against the U.S. government. Cobell is shown here in 2009 with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar after an announcement on the settlement of the lawsuit. Cobell died last year.
    Native Americans To Soon Receive Settlement Checks
    Federal officials are working to send out $1,000 checks in the next few weeks to hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. The money stems from a settlement of the Cobell case, a landmark $3.4 billion settlement over mismanagement of federal lands held in trust for Native American people.
  • Photographer David Blackwell and his wife prepared for the apocalypse. Cats and cat food? Check. Toilet paper? Check. Exploding volcanoes and hurtling asteroids? Not so much.
    Phew! You Survived The Mayan Apocalypse. Now What?
    We have received credible reports that the world has not come to an end, contrary to predictions of doom. But just in case there are signs of annihilation where you live, here's our guide to surviving in the wake of the Mayan Apocalypse.
  • Afghan Voters Defy Taliban Threat; Vote In Presidential Runoff
    Afghans went to the polls on Saturday to vote for a successor to Hamid Karzai who's ruled since 2001. Former foreign minister Adbullah Abdullah faced off against former finance minister Ashraf Ghani.
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