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Gabriel Sterling, Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, answers questions during a press conference in early November.

Georgia Election Official: Don't Let Misinformation 'Suppress Your Own Vote'

Gabriel Sterling, a top Georgia election official, debunked many of President Trump's false claims one by one on Monday.

Rep-elect Cori Bush, D-Mo., ousted longtime Missouri U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay during the Democratic primary and will become the first Black woman to represent her state in the U.S. Congress.

Here's A Look At Congress' Incoming Freshman Class

The 117th Congress will be the most diverse group of federal lawmakers yet.

Ambulances are parked outside the NHS Nightingale hospital at the ExCeL center in east London on Friday. Hospitals in the U.K. are preparing for an influx of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread.

U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Tops 350,000

Health care workers are bracing for a deadly January, and President-elect Joe Biden cautioned that "the next few weeks and months are going to be very tough."

Supporters of President Trump bang on the glass and chant slogans outside the room where absentee ballots for the 2020 general election were counted at TCF Center on November 4, in Detroit, Mich.

How Misinformation Lit The Fire Under A Year Of Political Chaos In Michigan

From protests, to the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, to false claims of election fraud, here's how conspiracy theories were allowed to fester through misinformation in Michigan politics.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka and many more authors and artists have 1925 works entering the public domain on January 1. Above, a first edition of <em>The Great Gatsby</em> at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in London in 2013.

Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day (Gatsby And Dalloway Are In)

Every year on January 1, the copyright on thousands of books, songs, films and other creative works expires. Law professor Jennifer Jenkins says 2021 is "a bumper crop."

Our Favorite Global TikToks Of 2020: From A Handwashing Dance To A Literal Ice Box

As the clock ticks farewell to a terrible, horrible, very bad year, TikTok brought moments of joy. Here's what ticked the boxes for TikTok devotees.

Hurricane Laura sends large waves crashing on a beach in Cameron, La., on August 26, as an offshore oil rig is seen in the distance. The most active hurricane season on record was just one of many challenges facing the oil industry this year — aside from the attention-grabbing crisis of the pandemic.

It Wasn't Just The Pandemic: Oil's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

The coronavirus-induced collapse in oil demand stole all the headlines. But oil companies faced a myriad of other woes, too, from hurricanes to itchy investors — and, of course, climate change.

Retired Navy Rear Adm. Margaret Kibben has been appointed chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives. Kibben is the first female chaplain in either house of Congress.

Pelosi Names 1st Female Chaplain To Serve Congress

Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed retired Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Presbyterian minister was former chief chaplain of the U.S. Navy.

Anti-abortion rights activists demonstrate at the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 5. The court's new conservative supermajority puts the fate of Roe v. Wade in doubt.

Supreme Court's New Supermajority: What It Means For Roe v. Wade

There are two schools of thought: either the right to abortion will be systemically hollowed out, leaving it a right on paper only, or Roe will be overturned.

In Memoriam 2020: The Musicians We Lost

The sheer volume of loss felt by the music world in 2020 is almost overwhelming. Here is NPR's tribute to dozens of the musicians — founders and innovators across genres — who died this year.

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