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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Wendy Weiser, who directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, about the threats to our elections in 2022 and 2024.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Wheeler, father to a 6-year-old who was killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about his reaction to the events in Uvalde, Texas.

The Food and Drug Administration is has postponed releasing details about whether two low doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine can protect kids ages 6 months to 5 years old.

The Dow Jones industrial average slumped 2.8% after briefly skidding more than 1,000 points. The S&P 500 had its biggest one-day loss in almost seven weeks.

As a candidate, Donald Trump described the economy as something of an unmitigated disaster. Now, he says, "prosperity is coming back to our shores." Is that really true?

U.S. employers added 531,000 new jobs as the unemployment rate fell to 4.6%. Millions of would-be workers are still on the sidelines, though, leaving the pace of the recovery in doubt.

Congress narrowly avoids a government shutdown by passing a temporary funding bill. We look at what's next in Congress as well as the House committee investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The 23-year-old is bringing her adopted country its first singles trophy at a major tournament.

Anastasiia Konovalova was a teacher in Odesa, Ukraine, when the war started. In a matter of weeks, she established a school for Ukrainian refugee children that now has a 600-person waitlist.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants.