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Critics say the ruling party overhauled public media to serve as a mouthpiece, and a state-backed oil refiner's purchase of a newspaper chain brings more outlets under party loyalist control.

Katherine Jackson French traveled the Kentucky mountains in the early 1900s searching for traditional ballads that were disappearing. Her work was never published — until now.

Congress will meet to tally the votes of the Electoral College. The ceremony has recently taken as little as 23 minutes to complete. But on Wednesday it could take hours.

Community organizer Rita Martinez died last month of COVID-19 at age 65. Martinez spent decades fighting for the rights of Chicano and Indigenous people in Pueblo, Colo.

Health experts are hopeful that vaccines will stop the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. But what about the rest of the world?

As voting is underway in Georgia's runoff elections for the U.S. Senate, NPR looks at how the process is going and discusses the impact of President Trump's false claims of voter fraud.

NPR shares the latest news from a polling station in two runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the U.S. Senate.

COVID-19 can damage the brain, causing long-term problems with thinking and memory. New research suggests the damage comes from the immune system's reaction to the coronavirus, not the virus itself.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, about how to address nationwide delays in distributing COVID-19 vaccines.

Dr. Nichole Bosson of the LA County Emergency Medical Services Agency explains Monday's orders not to transport some patients and to limit oxygen use amid Los Angeles' massive COVID-19 surge.