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House Clerk Cheryl Johnson receives a standing ovation in the House chamber on Thursday, the third day of speaker elections.

Meet Cheryl Johnson, the House clerk managing the speaker votes

Johnson has served as House clerk since 2019, the fourth woman and second Black person to do so. She's drawn praise from both sides of the aisle for running the speaker vote and maintaining order.

The main gate of Camp Pendleton Marine Base is shown in this undated photo.

Ex-Marine convicted of murder in 2019 North County DUI crash

Adam Daniel Barooshian, 29, was convicted Monday in a retrial for the New Year's Day 2019 crash that killed 29-year-old Christopher Williams of Oceanside.

FILE - Sunrise at the U.S. Capitol, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022 in Washington.

Poll: Dangers for both parties on the economy, crime and transgender rights

The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds the economy is still top of mind for Americans — and that both parties are vulnerable on different issues.

Do you have student debt, but no degree? Are you in default? Tell us

Lots of people have student loans, but not all debt is created equal. NPR wants to hear how your student loan debt has affected you.

Power lines silhouetted against a setting sun turned blood-red because of the smoke from Valley Fire in this photo taken Sept. 6, 2020.

Record power demand could bring rolling blackouts

This week California’s grid operator predicts unprecedented energy demand due the state’s long-running heat wave.

Magnus Ek, 53, a retired Swedish lieutenant, is teaching a group of Ukrainian conscripts how to fire an AK-47 in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Ek, who spent a decade as an instructor in Sweden, is among a group of foreign military volunteers who have gone to help Ukrainians defend their country from Russia's invasion.

Foreign volunteers race to train new Ukrainian troops to be sent to the front

Former service members and combat medics from other countries are in Ukraine to train civilians. They typically have just days with new conscripts before they are sent to the front.

Authorities identified Damien Sanderson, left, and Myles Sanderson, who are presently at large, as suspects in a series of stabbings in two communities in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan that left multiple people dead and others wounded.

One suspect found dead, the other remains at large, following mass stabbing in Canada

The stabbings took place across 13 locations in the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon in Canada's Saskatchewan province.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz enters the courtroom for a sentencing hearing Tuesday at the Broward County Courthouse.

At an emotional hearing, the Parkland shooter is formally sentenced to life in prison

After a jury recommended the sentence, the judge could not change it. But she did allow victims and families to speak directly to Nikolas Cruz for the first time to express their anger and grief.

Carrie (Sofia Oxenham), left, and Jen (Máiréad Tyers) get powered up in <em>Extraordinary</em>.

'Extraordinary' is a super-powered comedy that's broad, brash and bingeable

In Hulu's sardonically silly comedy, everyone in the human race acquires different powers except for one young woman. And she's not happy about it.

Russia is touting a rare military victory, but Ukraine disputes that claim

Control of Soledar could allow Russia to cut off Ukrainian supply lines to nearby Bakhmut, another fiercely contested city seen as central to Russia's struggling efforts to control eastern Ukraine.

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