Search results for

President Biden's judicial picks have included the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, women of color to federal appeals courts and openly LGBTQ judges to serve on the federal bench.

The United Nations has complained that Nepal's bureaucracy is getting in the way of relief efforts. Government officials in Kathmandu say they aren't receiving enough of the right kind of aid.

Also: In Atlanta, educators indicted in cheating scandal start turning themselves in; NRA is set to introduce its report on school safety; Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized; an American woman is reportedly gang raped in Brazil.

A federal judge on Wednesday acquitted a New Mexico man of misdemeanor charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol and engaged in disorderly conduct during last year's riot.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Harry Dunn, a Capitol police officer on duty Jan. 6, about his memoir documenting the events of the insurrection, and the toll it took on officers protecting democracy.

U.S. counterterrorism official Joe Kent became the first senior Trump administration member to resign over the Iran war. Israel killed two top Iranian officials, dealing another blow to the regime.

States with the lowest vaccination rates are clustered in the South and the Southwest. But there's one standout, New Mexico, where health officials now say some counties are close to 90% vaccinated.

The third political appointment at the bureau in less than two months comes amid growing concerns about the Trump administration interfering with the 2020 census to benefit Republicans.

The Senate voted around 2 a.m. Friday to confirm retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump plucked him from retirement to be his top military adviser.

Guilty or innocent, the drug-corruption trial in New York of high-ranking former Mexican government official, Genaro Garcia Luna, shows the limits of the U.S. to win its decades-long "war on drugs."