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Sheriff Bill Gore is shown talking to the media after being sworn in for another term on Jan. 5, 2015.

San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore Discusses Hate Incidents, Jail Deaths

In 2019, the San Diego Sheriff's Department faced a number of scandals from a sexual assault trial involving a former deputy to growing criticism over the high number of deaths inside county jails.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett heard her first arguments as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justice Barrett Joins Supreme Court Arguments For The First Time

The newest justice did not participate in the court's work last week, and, consequently, did not vote in two significant cases decided by the court in opinions released Monday.

A congratulatory telegraph from William Jennings Bryan, Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, is considered to be the first public concession in U.S. presidential politics.

How To Lose An Election: A Brief History Of The Presidential Concession Speech

There's no legal or constitutional requirement that the loser of a U.S. presidential election must concede. But the public concession speech is an important tradition, perhaps now more than ever.

Typhoon Goni downed electric posts in Tabaco, Albay province, in addition to causing deadly flooding and storm surge when it struck the Philippines on Sunday.

Powerful Typhoon Goni Slams The Philippines, Leaving At Least 10 Dead And 3 Missing

The storm, with maximum wind speeds that made it the most powerful of the year, made landfall on the populous island of Luzon on Sunday and is weakening as it heads toward Vietnam.

Poll workers set up for the start of in-person voting at the Mid-City Gym in City Heights, Oct. 30, 2020.

Poll Workers In City Heights Get Ready For In-Person Voting

I decided to go to City Heights to capture the scene at this polling place where people started voting Saturday morning. What I found was a mix of veteran election workers and first-timers.

Researchers have observed that the friendliest male bonobos, like this male resident of Lola Ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tend to be the most successful. Early humans may have had the same experience with their peers.

How Humans Domesticated Themselves

Duke anthropologist Brian Hare argues that humans evolved in a way that left us more cooperative and friendlier than our now extinct human cousins, like Neanderthals and Denisovans.

An artist paints a mural indicating which presidential candidate has won certain states on election night in 2016. Once again, NPR will rely on The Associated Press to provide election results and race calls.

Here's how NPR reports election results

The network relies on results and race calls from The Associated Press for presidential races, other federal elections and statewide contests.

Here's How NPR Reports Election Results

The network relies on results and race calls from The Associated Press for the presidential race, other federal elections and statewide contests.

Looks like your spice rack on steroids? Nope. Although the colors <em>are </em>a feast for the eyes.

Tiny Little Jars Contain Big, Bold Colors In The Forbes Pigment Collection

Conservators, preservationists, artists, art historians and serious art fans can consult the Harvard Art Museums' collection to analyze and imitate the colors that painters used many centuries ago.

A coal train stops near the White Bluff Plant near Redfield, Ark. in 2014. Entergy Arkansas agreed to eventually stop using coal at this and another plant under a settlement with environmental groups, but a dark money nonprofit funded by Wyoming is pushing to keep them operating.

Wyoming Is Using Dark Money To Help Keep Coal Plants In Other States Open

Wyoming is quietly supporting action elsewhere to preserve its coal-dependent economy. Experts on money in politics say they've never seen this before and find it troubling.

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