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Multiple officials have now tested positive for the coronavirus following last week's ceremony for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

New Yorker writer Alexis Okeowo wanted to get past standard journalistic narratives of war and tragedy and show people as flawed, complicated individuals in her new book, A Moonless, Starless Sky.

The price tag comes in at roughly $1 trillion, with $550 billion in new spending over five years. The funding goes toward roads and bridges as well as broadband and electric vehicles.

Whether people consume news in a social setting or alone can affect how likely they are to fact-check. Research suggests people let their guard down when they're in groups and become less skeptical.

So many election polls this year were just plain wrong. People no longer want to talk to pollsters on the phone. And more people are using cell phones, which traditionally aren't polled. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

An attacker recently opened fire on Tunisian beach and killed 38 people. NPR's Alice Fordham, who went to cover the story, used to live in Tunisia. She reflects on how the country has changed.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is vowing that the people behind an attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 26 will be quote "punished beyond their imagination."

More people have been Googling the term "white people" recently, perhaps prompted by this election cycle's racial issues. But we're trying to figure out a couple of other spikes over time.

In the wake of disasters, there are a lot of people who need help — and a lot of people who want to offer it.

At least 12 states and more than a hundred towns and cities throughout the nation have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day as a holiday.