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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Michael Signer about this week's assault on the U.S. Capitol and lessons from his dealings with white extremists.

Under a bankruptcy procedure prohibited by courts in part of the country, the Sacklers could be sheltered from opioid lawsuits even without declaring bankruptcy. Some states are crying foul.

Police have long been able to search people without a warrant at the time of their arrest. Two cases before the Supreme Court ask whether cellphones should be off-limits until police get permission.

Three federal judges heard arguments Friday over whether a Texas law that would, in effect, shutter 11 health clinics that perform abortions puts an undue burden on women.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders acknowledged this week that the young voters he's been counting on to boost his candidacy have not shown up at the polls in the strong numbers he had been hoping for.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Michelle Zuluaga of the Latino Community Fund, about getting out the Latino vote in Georgia's senate run-offs.

Critic Jason Sheehan says the new novel from Matt Haig — about a mystical library that lets people sample all the ways their lives might have gone — is a little too gentle and straightforward.

All eyes in the capital — and many more in the nation — will be on the former special counsel this week in Congress. Whatever takes place, the political stakes are high.

House leaders are trying to pass a bipartisan infrastructure deal on Thursday. But that's one piece of a larger legislative puzzle that could stymie the Democratic agenda in Congress.

Deliberations are set to begin Monday in a trial that will determine whether the disgraced former CEO of the biotech startup Theranos faces possible prison time or walks free.