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Two Texas pastors who referred to Kamala Harris as a "Jezebel" are facing backlash. The trope has become shorthand for a woman who is manipulative, seductive and wicked.

The Food and Drug Administration gave Johnson & Johnson's vaccine the green light for emergency use Saturday, a day after a panel of advisers to the agency endorsed it in a unanimous vote.

The market for a "non-fungible token" is the talk of Silicon Valley. Collectors spent from $3 to millions for what amounts to digital art: a clip of Lebron dunking; a cat meme; and cartoon CytoPunks.

Black farmers had hoped for someone who would overhaul the many decades of racial injustice and discrimination in agriculture policy.

Brian Sicknick was a 42-year-old military veteran who had served in the U.S. Capitol Police for 12 years, according to a lawmaker, who said he "gave his life in the line of duty to keep us safe."

Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about sports and politics this week, sports betting legalizing in New York, the National Championship game, and the passing of Dodgers' Tommy Lasorda.

Monoclonal antibody drugs for COVID-19 with mild to moderate symptoms are not widely used, in part because doctors aren't sure they work. New data could provide more confidence in these drugs.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with historian John Reeves about the history of treason in the United States and what that word means today.

Corporate gobbledygook is widely ridiculed. But it's pervasive in the American workplace and never goes away. There's new research into who uses jargon and why.

Reading from U.S. regulations, Mayor Muriel Bowser describes terrorism as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government."