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For nearly three years, China has enforced incredibly strict rules to keep coronavirus transmission in check. But now they're facing a potentially deadly omicron surge.

The frigid Christmas storm has killed at least 24 people across the country, trapping some residents inside homes with snow drifts, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes.

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war is.

Alyssa Murphy turned 27 last week. She was 6 years old when she was placed in foster care. She stayed in 40 placements after that. She reflected on what the case she joined at 14 has done for foster kids, and why she wants Judge Janis Jack to stay on the case.

Starbucks and some of its baristas have been in a contentious fight over unionizing since 2021. Now, the Supreme Court considers a case that could have implications for unions far beyond Starbucks.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with ESPN reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada about the controversy over the hall of fame eligibility of Jim Tyrer, a great player who also committed a terrible crime.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Carol Mason about her new book, From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary.

Democratic Congressman Andy Kim challenged the state's powerful political machine and won in court and on the ground, making him the unlikely favorite in this November's Senate race.

Historians say the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol flowed in part from the refusal by some elected officials to openly condemn a particular strain of far-right extremism going back to the 1990s.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with David A. Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic, about his recent piece "The Threat to Democracy Is Still in Congress."