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Forget the Build Back Better bill or the Jan. 6 investigation. Right now, some members of Congress seem to be more focused on the holiday decorations outside their Capitol Hill offices.

A campaign in Africa to prevent HIV has persuaded 6 million teens and men to get circumcised and aims to sign up 14 million more. To do so, health officials must appeal to male vanity.

Extreme heat across California is causing trouble in schools. It's straining aging air conditioning systems, making recess dangerous and highlighting ventilation problems in many classrooms.

The memorial honors the 26 children and adults killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown. A rebuilt Sandy Hook School is now visible from the site in Newtown, Conn.

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger says matters that led to the Capitol attack have been addressed and he's expanding field offices to be better prepared for threats against congressional members.

Long Binh Jail was a prison for American soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon with notoriously harsh conditions. In 1968, a group of black inmates were fed up with their treatment and the war.

How has life changed over the past eight years under President Obama? NPR hits the road to ask Americans about Obama's White House years on everything from jobs and energy to race and immigration.

Fifty years ago, Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to Congress. As part of our series on significant events from 1968, we examine Chisholm's life and work.

In the U.S., health and wealth are often linked. As the coronavirus spreads, experts worry that low-income communities will be especially vulnerable — and ill-equipped to respond.

Issues of vanity aside, the mask has become an emblem of submission to experts, to officialdom — to Washington. By the same token, the refusal to wear a mask becomes another badge of defiance.