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China passed a resolution enabling Beijing to disqualify opposition politicians in Hong Kong. Four opposition members of the city's legislature were immediately expelled as a result.

Joe Biden is taking steps to form a government. He says he's confident his transition to the White House will move forward, despite President Trump's refusal to accept the outcome of the election.

Hospitals, a powerful political force in health care, fear lowering the eligibility age for Medicare will cost them billions of dollars because federal reimbursements are less than private insurance.

Harold McGee talks about how our sense of smell affects taste, why things smell the way they do and the ways different chemicals combine to create surprising (and sometimes distasteful) odors.

Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan won re-election Wednesday, giving Republicans control of 50 seats in the Senate as two races in Georgia head to runoffs in January.

In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, desegregating the school.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with retired Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson of the Marine Corps and his two sons, Kevin and Andrew, who served under him in Afghanistan and Iraq.

News of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness has inspired hope around containing the coronavirus. But polls show that up to two-thirds of Americans say they are unlikely to get a vaccine.

The campaign team made the announcement Wednesday. An alumnus of the Obama-Biden administration, Klain previously served as Joe Biden's chief of staff when he was vice president.

The Danish government had ordered all farmed mink in the country to be killed because the animals can carry a dangerous coronavirus variant. Critics say the government exceeded its legal authority.