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A satirical statue featuring a pile of poop on the House Speaker's desk has appeared on the National Mall, with a plaque that "honors the brave men and women" who stormed the Capitol on January 6.

Florida's first and sixth Congressional districts are holding special elections this Tuesday.

More than 40,000 North Carolina students have applied so far to receive state funding to attend a K-12 private school next fall. Twice as many could still apply to renew vouchers they received this school year.

College football looks a lot different than it did last season. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Holly Anderson co-host of the Shutdown Fullcast about all the changes.

NPR's Megan Lim and Ryan Benk, two action sequence aficionados, discuss the elements of a great cinematic fight scene.

What you need to know from the June 17 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting

Q: Why did the cost to replace the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge more than double? Is the final plan set in stone? What happened to that federal grant? Are we still getting a toll? Is the existing bridge going to fall into the river?A: Unfortunately, it’s complicated. The short answer is that while inflation and the requirements of federal agencies – like the Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers – have increased the projected cost, there’s still a lot of uncertainty around the final design for a replacement. The existing bridge, meanwhile, isn’t at risk of collapsing – but it is both increasingly expensive to maintain and increasingly falling behind the traffic levels coming in and out of Wilmington.

The associate attorney general reflects on investigations of police, the department's response to the landmark Dobbs abortion ruling, and meeting with survivors of mass violence.

Rescuers are still trying to reach victims after an earthquake on Sunday devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan. The country's disaster management authority says more than 950 people were killed.

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.