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The White House tried to remain laser-focused on the agenda that it had laid out for the first 100 days, but the situation at the border has been the greatest source of disruption beyond its control.

Twitter and Facebook are removing posts in India that are critical of the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, now a dire crisis.

President Biden is set to announce higher capital gains taxes — the taxes owed to the U.S. government from profits made after the sale of an asset like stocks — for wealthier Americans.

While some blue states and cities have succeeded in passing reforms, more muted action in other places has left activists calling out for federal legislation.

Ed Gonzalez spent 18 years with the Houston Police Department as a civilian and officer, then served three terms on the Houston City Council. He criticized ICE raids during the Trump administration.

Though optimism grows in the U.S. as more and more people get vaccinated, the global picture is far from rosy. Several countries are struggling, and things continue to look grim.

Pressure is building for President Biden to keep a campaign promise and announce this weekend that the U.S. views the massacres of Amenians a century ago by the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

World leaders meet later this year to fight a global extinction crisis. Scientists are urging them to take bold action, pointing to the current pandemic as an example of what's at stake.

After Chicago police shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo last month, they tried to save his life. That represents a change in how police react after shootings.

The movie Judas and the Black Messiah, about Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, is up for six Oscars on Sunday. The NPR podcast Throughline looks into the history of the Black Panther Party.