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Across the country, there are growing concerns that the bitterness and animosity over the presidential election will not end when the polls close.

The region in southwestern Texas has been an election-year battleground in the national fights over conservation, energy efficiency, and water use. It also recently saw a firestorm over an issue that echoes presidential election-year rhetoric: potential Chinese threats to national security.

Federal judge rejected a Trump administration rule Monday that would have denied green cards to any immigrant accessing public benefits such as food stamps.

Sen. Harris is the first person of South Asian descent on a U.S. presidential ticket. Her mother's side of the family is from southern India. Hindu faithful offer prayers for a Biden-Harris victory.

At least four people were killed in a shooting spree on Monday, before police shot and killed a gunman that the country's interior minister described as an "Islamist terrorist."

Increased numbers of people voting by mail may delay results from some key swing states like Pennsylvania and Nevada. We explore how much information will and will not be available on election night.

The U.S. elections project tracking database says more than 100 million people cast ballots early. That's a shift in voting behavior driven by the pandemic, but also by sky-high voter enthusiasm.

It looked as if polio would be the second human disease to be eliminated — after smallpox. But "2020 has been a terrible year," the head of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative says.

NPR's David Greene talks to Eric Liu of Citizen University and the Aspen Institute about what the election means for a divided country, and how to affirm civic engagement across the divide.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Pennsylvania's Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar about mail-in ballots, and those that are received up to three days after Election Day will be counted.