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Charles Booker, a Black progressive state representative, is mounting a strong challenge to Amy McGrath, the veteran recruited by top Democrats to run against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Long a model for top-notch care for presidents and soldiers alike, Walter Reed Army Medical Center became a byword for bureaucratic bungling in 2007. Army officials are still addressing the failures revealed by an investigation that found wounded soldiers left to fend for themselves.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been criticized for lacking focus — but its main slogan seems to be resonating. That slogan, "We are the 99 percent," highlights the issue of income disparity. It's something economist Jeffrey Sachs has been tracking for a long time.

As China gears up for a once-in-a-decade political transition, those vying for leadership are backing competing socio-economic models. This year's political debate has sprung out in the open — and it has leaders and constituents considering how to move forward politically.

Two hugely important recordings, made by pivotal musicians an ocean apart, were made on the same day in 1936.

Drawing on the words of Teddy Roosevelt, President Obama took on income inequality and made the case for continuing the payroll tax cut.

The foiled plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. is not likely to lead to military reprisals, analysts say. But it will increase tension within a set of tangled relationships.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, about the current outlook for COVID-19 boosters, and who needs them most to get the surge under control.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Andrew Schwartz, of UC Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, about the record snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in December and why it matters.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, about the situation in Ukraine.