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Turkey's invasion of Syria this month has displaced 80,000 children who are "really in deep distress," UNICEF's Fran Equiza tells NPR. "The price children pay is absolutely disproportionate."

Donna Skoda is retiring at the end of the year. She led the department through major health crises including the opioid epidemic and COVID-19.

President Biden is set to announce higher capital gains taxes — the taxes owed to the U.S. government from profits made after the sale of an asset like stocks — for wealthier Americans.

Black leaders are protesting Florida's decision to ban an AP course on African American studies. Governor Ron DeSantis is facing harsh and continued criticism about the move.

The 25% tariff on U.S. whiskey will be removed in January. Gone too will be the tariffs on U.S. motorcycles and denim, all levied during the Trump administration's trade battle with the E.U.

The National Park Service is trying to include more Black history into the story of America. Some of the proposed sites are painful, others are controversial.

Rick Perlstein's new book describes how Reagan emerged as the leader of a potent political movement during the turbulent mid-'70s. He says the soul of Reagan's appeal was how he made people feel good.

The fate of the coronavirus relief bill that Congress passed this week remains unclear. President Trump wants Congress to increase aid payments, which Democrats support. Republicans, though, do not.

White House spokesman Joshua Earnest would not say if the hostage was being held by the Islamic State, but he said that the U.S. was aware of at least one other American being held in Syria.

The Justice Department vowed to investigate Americans killed by Hamas in the group's Oct. 7 attack on Israel. But the DOJ has done nothing to investigate deaths of 4 Americans killed in the West Bank and Gaza by Israelis.