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Authorities are looking for the North Carolina man they say shot a kindergartner and three others. It's the fourth high-profile incident this week in which apparent mistakes were met with gunshots.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds that Americans are pessimistic about the future of democracy, as false claims about the 2020 election persist.

All of Colorado’s seven U. S. congresspeople are up for reelection on Nov. 6, but there’s one race that’s dominating the political landscape: Democrat…

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Donald Trump had no interest in what the facts were after the election, and debunked claims Dominion Voting Systems machines had been tampered with.

Ahead of the vote, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming read a litany of text messages she said Mark Meadows received during the Jan. 6 siege, including from Donald Trump Jr.

A Denver city councilmember who supports defunding police weighs new success of replacing cops with mental health teams. Six months in, the team has responded to almost 750 calls, without one arrest.

The legal settlement covers attorneys fees for religious rights groups that sued on behalf of a Catholic health clinic in Englewood and a nurse midwife.

Some of the 43 monkeys that escaped from a research facility in South Carolina are still on the loose. Animal rights activists say the company that breeds them needs to be investigated.

This week, more than a third of U.S. homes are now in what they call the wildland urban interface, where they risk being destroyed by wildfires. That…

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to astronaut Jessica Watkins, who will become the first Black woman to spend an extended amount of time in space.