States including Virginia and Texas have set aside significant money to address flooding. Local officials hope it will help pay for flood prevention projects that the federal government won't fund. - 51 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 7:55am -
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to produce a full environmental review. Until then, oil must stop flowing through the controversial pipeline. - 1 hour ago 6 Jul 20, 7:38am -
The decision could directly affect the election, which will take place in November amid a pandemic and a partial economic collapse. - 1 hour ago 6 Jul 20, 7:18am -
The package, announced Sunday, includes grants and loans that theaters, museums, live music venues and others can use to pay salaries and maintenance costs as they try to survive during the pandemic. - 2 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 7:13am -
View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are growing and which are leveling off. - 2 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 6:17am -
A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed thousands of people. - 3 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 6:16am -
President Trump implied that NASCAR’s decision to prohibit Confederate flags at its races was a mistake while also falsely asserting that a top Black driver, Bubba Wallace, had engaged in a hoax involving a noose found in his stall. - 14 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:32am -
More federal workers are returning to their offices. New data shows the pandemic’s disproportionate effect on Black and Latino people in the United States. - 18 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:28am -
Stakes are high in the Democratic primary for a New Jersey congressional seat: The winner will face a candidate who defected from the party to support Trump. - 21 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:25am -
With coronavirus concerns, stay-at-home orders, financial instability and mounting civil unrest, it is no surprise that mothers are experiencing intensified anger. - 48 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 7:58am -
The family of Breonna Taylor updated their lawsuit against the city of Louisville, Ky., claiming that local authorities executed a search warrant on Taylor’s home to speed up an ongoing gentrification project in West Louisville.Read more... - 16 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:30am -
Henderson, Minn., is the new home of a life-size bronze statue of the one and only Prince, a fitting memorial considering the tiny town was made famous after appearing in the late musician’s film Purple Rain.Read more... - 46 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:00am -
A Super Mario sale, Anker wireless Qi charger, an Ella Paradis vibrator bundle, five pounds of gummy worms, and a Gooloo 1200A car starter are just some of Monday’s best deals.Read more... - 1 hour ago 6 Jul 20, 7:30am -
What is a racist to do when he doesn’t have any news to throw gasoline on the racist fire he keeps lit? Well, bring up some old news, that’s what.Read more... - 1 hour ago 6 Jul 20, 7:24am -
A little Black girl was kicked out of a daycare in Russellville, Arkansas because its operators said she was encouraging racism by wearing a shirt that read ‘Black Lives Matter.’Read more... - 23 hours ago 5 Jul 20, 10:00am -
An election commissioner in Mississippi claims her intent wasn’t to be racist despite posting on Facebook that she was concerned because “the Blacks” are having lots of voter registration events. Read more... - 1 day ago 5 Jul 20, 8:40am -
Former Obama National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, is moving up the ranks in the race to be the vice-presidential pick for Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign. Sources say that Rice and Biden’s chemistry is a big factor in her consideration. “I know they have a good relationship — perhaps th… - 1 min ago 6 Jul 20, 8:45am -
A statue of abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was vandalized in Rochester, New York on Sunday. The statue was taken down from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. A statue of Frederick Douglass was ripped from its b… - 33 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:13am -
HILDEBRAN, N.C. (AP) — A group called the Sons of Confederate Veterans has raised a 20-foot-by-30-foot Confederate flag on an 80-foot pole near an interstate in North Carolina. WSOC-TV reports that the flag was raised near Interstate 40 in Burke County on Friday. The area is between Asheville an… - 36 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:10am -
Fox News edited President Donald Trump out of a well-known photo of him an accused sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. The original photo featured Trump, his then-girlfriend, Melania Krause, and Epstein and his confidante Ghislane Maxwell. The photo was used during a segment discussing the pending charg… - 1 hour ago 6 Jul 20, 7:39am -
A Florida Congressional candidate tweeted that Beyoncé is not African American. “She is faking this for exposure.” KW Miller wrote, “Her real name is Ann Marie Lastrassi. She is Italian. This is all part of the Soros Deep State agenda for the Black Lives Matter movement.” Miller finished hi… - 2 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 7:13am -
The VA’s federal watchdog has uncovered filthy conditions at facilities across the country. Yet some 40 percent of all VA hospitals recently suffered from severe shortages of housekeeping staff. - 2 days ago 4 Jul 20, 4:00am -
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can prohibit their Electoral College representatives from disregarding voters when casting their ballots in presidential elections.The unanimous decision, arising out o... - 1 hour ago 6 Jul 20, 7:21am -
President Trump on Monday chastised NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag from its races and targeted Bubba Wallace, one of the sport's top Black stars, roughly two weeks after a noose was found in the driver's garage s... - 3 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 6:02am -
The intensive care units (ICU) at four hospitals in the Tampa area were at maximum capacity over the weekend as the number of coronavirus cases in Florida continue to spike. Palms of Pasadena Hos... - 3 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 5:27am -
Democrats are within striking distance of retaking the Senate majority in November as Republicans face an increasingly difficult electoral map. - 6 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 3:00am -
Alarming indicators continued to mount over the Fourth of July weekend, with the rolling seven-day average for daily new cases hitting a record high for the 27th day in a row on Sunday. - 5 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:41am -
“It does not shock us that despite all the scrutiny from community Phoenix PD continues to respond violently to calls. But, we must all continue to ask for transparency and accountability,” Phoenix City Councilman Carlos Garcia wrote in a Facebook post Sunday. - 5 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 3:55am -
His self-immolation plunged my family into a multilayered nightmare. But here's what I've learned: grief can plant the seeds of hope. - 6 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 3:00am -
When the coronavirus pandemic began, Christmas City Spirits in Bethlehem, Pa., stopped its alcohol production and instead made hand sanitizer, which it donated to essential workers. - 6 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 3:00am -
“I thought under the cover of darkness our local racists would go out there and do whatever they wanted to do,” the mural organizer said. “But this was literally while there were people there enjoying the mural." - 7 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 2:16am -
Before apologizing on Sunday, Hicks had sounded a defiant tone, calling his critics “liberal Marxist parasites" and insisting that the cartoon was fair commentary on a statewide mask order he described as “authoritarian." - 7 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 1:32am -
Danielle Allen has a 2,500-year view of democracies, wrote Harvard’s pandemic resilience road map and thinks American government is like a Ferrari we haven’t learned to drive. But she’s not totally pessimistic: We can take hope, she says, from New Orleans. - 5 days ago 1 Jul 20, 4:55pm -
The controversial Dakota Access pipeline will be forced to shut down after a federal court on Monday revoked a 2017 permit that had allowed the project to move forward, marking a stunning defeat for the Trump administration and a major win for Native American tribes. U.S. District Judge James Boasbe… - 41 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 8:05am -
The ruling, just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner. - 48 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 7:58am -
The statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park in Rochester, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. - 57 mins ago 6 Jul 20, 7:49am -
Trump accused the NASCAR driver of stirring up trouble by complaining about a noose found in his garage -- a White House spokeswoman compared him to accused hoaxer Jussie Smollett. - 2 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 6:44am -
Loree Sutton, the former U.S. brigadier general who worked as Mayor de Blasio’s Veterans’ Affairs commissioner, is taking a different approach. - 8 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 1:00am -
The VA’s federal watchdog has uncovered filthy conditions at facilities across the country. Yet some 40 percent of all VA hospitals recently suffered from severe shortages of housekeeping staff. - 2 days ago 4 Jul 20, 4:00am -
The Trump show may be losing its allure, exposing the empty space once filled by the empathy and seriousness of presidents leading in a crisis. - 3 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 5:37am -
The Trump supporters attacked the mural soon after community members finished painting it outside the Contra Costa county courthouse. - 3 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 5:18am -
The sign showed a running estimate of over 77,000 coronavirus deaths that could have been avoided had Trump acted earlier. - 7 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 1:28am -
Activists and members of different tribes from the region blocked the road as they protested Trump's visit to Keystone.View Entire Post › - 4 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 12:45pm -
Hundreds of workers may have contracted Covid-19 to get you the food on your plate this July 4th. Some may have even died. A BuzzFeed News investigation exposes the cost of your BBQ.View Entire Post › - 7 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 1:30am -
A group of First Baptist Dallas choir and orchestra members contracted COVID-19 in the lead-up to Vice President Mike Pence’s visit on Sunday. An infectious disease expert called it “appalling.”View Entire Post › - 2 days ago 4 Jul 20, 2:25pm -
Federal death row inmates are asking a judge to intervene on new legal grounds after the US Supreme Court refused to get involved. The ACLU is also suing.View Entire Post › - 3 days ago 3 Jul 20, 1:50pm -
TikTok has given pro-Trump teens a platform to make memes — and get attention. But what happens when the news isn't funny anymore?View Entire Post › - 4 days ago 2 Jul 20, 6:25pm -
Apple iPhones offer Face ID, which allows you to unlock your phone and some apps by using a facial scan. | AFP/Getty Images A growing number of gadgets are scanning your face. Facial recognition is having a reckoning. Recent protests against racism and police brutality have shined a light on t… - 3 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 6:15am -
A mural by artist Pony Wave depicts two people kissing while wearing face masks on Venice Beach in Los Angeles. | Mario Tama/Getty Images California took early action against the coronavirus pandemic. Now things have taken a turn for the worse. A few months ago, California looked like a success s… - 3 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 5:30am -
A woman holds a “Black Lives Matter” sign during a rally at Woodhouse Moor in Leeds, United Kingdom, on June 21. | Danny Lawson/PA Images/Getty Images The power of the movement lies in making the public, and politicians, take notice. Since its founding in 2013, Black Lives Matter has awakene… - 4 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 5:00am -
People are planning road trips to national parks or public campgrounds to get out of the house, while still remaining socially distanced from others. | Thomas Barwick/Getty Images After months indoors, people are renting RVs, cabins, and fancy tents to spend time in nature. During the first wave… - 4 hours ago 6 Jul 20, 4:30am -
US President Donald Trump arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, July 3. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Trump’s Independence Day fearmongering about “far-left fascism” shows he doesn’t get his own base. Presidents tend to offer messages of national unity… - 17 hours ago 5 Jul 20, 3:38pm -
People practice social distancing at Domino Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on May 19. | Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images People are starting to leave their homes again. Here’s how to do that and stay as safe as possible. Americans have gotten tired of staying inside. As the cor… - 3 days ago 3 Jul 20, 9:20am -
Photographer Flora Maclean was stuck at home, not on a desert island – but that didn't stop her from making her own collection of Wilsons. - 3 days ago 3 Jul 20, 1:30pm -
Now that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested and charged, the FBI is turning its attention to Epstein's royal friend. - 3 days ago 3 Jul 20, 1:29pm -
Viral video footage of the incident showed a white woman pulling her gun after telling the family that "white people aren't racist." - 3 days ago 3 Jul 20, 1:28pm -