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After facing a pandemic, record-setting mail ballot turnout, threats and conspiracies about vote counting, local elections officials are grappling with new laws and high scrutiny for future elections.

NPR critic Linda Holmes explains why action sequences that don't echo into the movie theater next door should be appreciated.

This is a weekend for holiday shoppers looking for bargains.But they may also want to spend extra time looking for bargains at the pump.Hurricanes,…

Quick and creative ways to make your house feel as fresh as spring.

In Our Daily Breather, we ask writers and artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Violinist Jennifer Koh recommends seeking out a source of carefree joy.

Desmond Tutu will be remembered for helping end apartheid. But also for his memorable laugh, an infectious, cackling howl employed in the service of easing tensions in a very tense nation.

Some kids are getting sick or passing the coronavirus to vaccinated family and friends. It's all unnerving to many parents. "It felt like a terrible head cold," one dad says. "My brain was foggy."

The state of Michigan has completed an aerial spraying program over nearly a half million acres in hopes of reducing the risk of a disease spread by…

The city of Portland evacuated more residents as severe flooding from the Grand River got worse.The town is about 25 miles northwest of Lansing.About 50…

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner commission, appointed in 1967 to study the root causes of social unrest in America. Its groundbreaking report blamed racism.