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Lou Gehrig's disease can take months to diagnose, then rapidly incapacitate patients, leaving many families bankrupt before disability payments and Medicare kick in. A recent law aims to change that.

Downs speaks with Rachel Martin about "Dark Eyes," a song inspired by essential workers from Native American communities who are often overlooked.

Trump took advantage of powers of his office for a final time. He issued clemency to scores of people, including ex-adviser Steve Bannon, and ordered documents around the Russia probe declassified.

The Museum of London has acquired the famous Trump Baby Balloon, portraying the 45th president as a diaper wearing baby. Matthew Bonner made it ahead of Trump's first visit to London as president.

Precisely at noon, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the nation's 46th president. Chief Justice Roberts will lead Biden through the oath of office. Security concerns and the pandemic have altered events.

For so many people, Kamala Harris' inauguration as vice president is a momentous occasion. But it is also a moment that has been stripped of much of the traditional pomp and circumstance.

Volunteers created an inauguration kolam, a traditional South Asian art form of geometric patterns, to welcome President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris to the White House.

Since the first case, 400,000 people in the U.S. have died. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden's COVID-19 task force, about the administration's pandemic priorities.

For 100 straight days, Jason Zgonc played his trumpet outside Emory Decatur Hospital near Atlanta to cheer up exhausted health care workers, who were caring for COVID-19 patients.

NPR's Noel King speaks to Todd Beckley, a funeral director in Los Angeles County, where COVID-19 deaths have overwhelmed mortuaries.