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Senators have reached a deal on $10 billion for additional COVID aid. It's far less than what the Biden administration wanted, but it's what lawmakers could agree to.

Research shows K-12 students in different states spend wildly different amounts of time in school, and suggests the nation's schools could be much better about using the learning time they do have.

The Senate confirmed President Trump's nomination of former Trump defense attorney Emil Bove as a federal appeals judge. Steve Inskeep talks with former prosecutor and Politico writer Ankush Khardori.

The median sales price of existing homes set a new record in June. But home sales were actually at a nine-month low in the same period.

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died at the age of 29. NPR's A Martinez talks with reporter David Cox about the impact Naroditsky had on the chess world.

David Greene talks to David Wessel, of the Brookings Institution and a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, about the Earned Income Tax Credit. It's one of the government's anti-poverty programs.

President Trump issued a long list of mostly symbolic pardons for political allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

There's a lot of discontent with America's political system, including with primary elections. Many experts say party-based primaries shut out independent voters and make political polarization worse. That's why some states are turning to nonpartisan primaries.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was given a Thursday deadline to accept a new peace plan drafted by the U.S. and Russia that Ukraine had no input in, causing concerns for residents.

A top State Department official wants to unleash the power of Twitter, Facebook and other services to crowdsource the fight to control the world's nuclear weapons.