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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 7.

The race for the Senate: Here are the top races to watch

Republicans are favored to take control of the chamber thanks to a 2024 map of races that tilts disproportionately in the GOP’s favor. Here are the races to watch.

House Minority Leader and Leader of the House Democratic Caucus, Hakeem Jeffries, speaks to campaign volunteers for Susan Wild, the US Representative for Pennsylvania’s 7th District, at the Italian Center in Williams Township, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, October 10, 2024.

Hakeem Jeffries could be the first Black speaker of the House. First, he needs to win

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is campaigning in competitive districts across the U.S. with the goal of flipping control of the House of Representatives in the November election.

The work of best-selling comic artist, author and professor John Jennings is part of the new Comic-Con Museum exhibit, "Collaboration(s)." May 8, 2024

Comic-Con Museum collaborates with artist John Jennings

The Comic-Con Museum's new "Collaboration(s)" exhibit explores how race, representation and horror intersect, and uplift people of color in the popular arts.

A Chevron gas station in Fresno on June 23, 2022.

California’s plan to overhaul a key climate program — raising the cost of gas — ignites debate

The state air board will vote on changes to its landmark clean fuel program that would cut more greenhouse gases but could raise the cost of gas and diesel.

Google suffered a defeat in a major antitrust lawsuit that was first brought by the Department of Justice in 2020.

Google is defiant after losing antitrust lawsuit and being called a 'monopolist'

A federal judge rules that Google illegally abused its monopoly power to maintain its control over the search engine business. Google says it's appealing.

A theater critic and a hotel maid are on the case in 2 captivating mystery novels

A critic becomes an amateur detective in order to avoid becoming a murder suspect in Alexis Soloski's Here in the Dark. In The Mystery Guest, by Nita Prose, a hotel's maid has to clean up a real mess.

Marie Guenther votes at the Bay View Library with her son in October 2020 in Milwaukee, Wisc., considered a battleground state.

How swing states came to be critical in U.S. presidential elections

Political campaigns and pundits have long focused on swing states because they offer candidates an opportunity to sway voters off the fence and win coveted Electoral College votes.

Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year

We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We've got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and much more.

Trump Media shares were volatile a day after the former president -- and majority shareholder of the company -- became a convicted felon.

'Buy DJT' is a new rallying cry for Trump supporters

Shares of Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, were volatile a day after his historic conviction. It's an early test of how committed his supporters will actually be in owning the shares.

Woodland, the new album by Gillian Welch (left) and David Rawlings, is the latest in a long collaboration between two musicians who have built careers — and an influential legacy — out of the magnetic interplay between their voices and the strength of their musical ideas.

'Woodland' is the sound of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings rebuilding together following disaster

The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes existential.

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