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President Trump and his GOP allies are making a series of false claims about how last week's election went. NPR reporters discuss why those claims are false and the larger strategy behind making them.

President Trump has been saying there will be a coronavirus vaccine "within weeks," and drugmakers are racing to produce one. In China, hundreds of thousands of people have already gotten shots.

Sports teams around the U.S. have turned over their stadiums and arenas to be used as pandemic-safe voting sites. And it's possible these polling places could become the future of Election Day.

President Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, are making a push Friday across swing states in the Midwest as they race to turn out voters in the last days of the campaign.

NPR takes a final look at the top House and Senate races and what is at stake in the next Congress.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with American soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe about her new memoir, One Life.

Pfizer's CEO sold $5.6 million worth of stock on Monday. The company says the stock sale was made as part of a preset plan. But NPR found irregularities about when the CEO entered into that plan.

As arts workers continue to struggle, they're trying their hand at something new — a piece of legislation that would keep their industry alive through the pandemic.

NPR's Mary Louise speaks with Adm. James Stavridis and Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman about their book 2034: A Novel of the Next World War.

People in a diverse Seattle neighborhood consider the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine, particularly who is and isn't getting it and why.

Three people died in avalanches in Colorado and Montana over the weekend. Colorado alone has seen 10 avalanche fatalities this winter.

Medicaid provides health care for millions of low-income Americans. The presidential election could reshape Medicaid — at a critical moment for health care.

China has reported a cluster of coronavirus cases in the western region of Xinjiang. The region is taking a well-worn approach to contain the cluster: mass, pooled testing and a lockdown.

By almost any metric, the scope of disinformation in America has gotten steadily worse in recent years. But the deplatforming of Trump, and a subsequent dip in lies online, gives room for optimism.

As coronavirus cases surge across the U.S., college students are nearing Thanksgiving break. But going home is complicated this year. We discuss how colleges ensure students' safe travel.

The Louisville Metro Police officer who was shot during the raid of Breonna Taylor's apartment has filed a countersuit. He's suing Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.

Congress has passed a bill recommending that President Trump posthumously awards the Medal of Honor to Army Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, who died from burns in Iraq in 2005.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shankar Kurra, vice president of medical affairs at Rapid City Hospital in South Dakota, about the staffing shortage at his hospital amid the surge of coronavirus cases.

Robert W. Lee tells NPR's Michel Martin what it's like to grapple with the legacy of his ancestor, Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He wrote about this in a memoir, "A Sin by Any Other Name."