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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Georgia election official Gabe Sterling on his plea to President Trump and fellow Republicans to condemn threats against election officials.

Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf answered questions Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as part of his confirmation hearing to become DHS secretary.

Revelations in Rage lead global health specialists to charge that Trump is scapegoating the World Health Organization.

The so-called public option may have died when Congress passed its health overhaul law in 2009, but it is alive and healthy in California. There, many counties have government-run health plans that people can buy. Now the debate is over what will happen to these plans when the federal overhaul law kicks in in 2014.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Iran experts, Kirsten Fontenrose and Seyed Hossein Mousavian, about a question regarding Iran that arose during the vice presidential debate.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Stacey Abrams, former Georgia House minority leader and 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, about efforts to get out and protect the vote in her state.

Coronavirus cases are surging in many countries, including the United States and in Europe, and governments are imposing new lockdowns. NPR takes a look at the state of the pandemic around the world.

After the Capitol insurrection brought the issue of domestic extremism in the military to light, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin directed all units to pause and reexamine their commitments to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. The last of those gatherings took place Tuesday for active service members.

Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief looks at the world of the controversial church and the life of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986.

At Harvey Mudd College in California, about 40 percent of the computer science majors are women. That's far more than at any other co-ed school. And it's thanks in large part to the school's president, Maria Klawe. She has worked hard to keep women interested in computer science and empower them to succeed in the field.