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Just before the election, President Trump issued an executive order creating a new category of federal employees, which some worry may politicize the civil service.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Dr. Ruth Faden, founder of Johns Hopkins University's bioethics institute, about why none of the top coronavirus vaccine contenders has been tested on pregnant people.

In the midst of grim COVID-19 news this week there is some hope on vaccines. The FDA will review the Pfizer vaccine this coming Thursday and it could be authorized almost immediately.

Four members of NPR's Arts Desk recommend books from the hundreds in NPR's 2020 Book Concierge.

Bryan Cranston stars as a judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run in New Orleans in the new Showtime series, Your Honor. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Deaths from COVID-19 have jumped nearly 40% this week, and hospitals around the country are straining under their patient load. Here's what happened in the first week after Thanksgiving.

President Trump heads to Georgia today, a state where he's claimed widespread election fraud. He's trying to convince voters to send Republicans to the U.S. Senate to keep control of the chamber.

Pence visited the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention to highlight promising vaccine developments, but he received a grim assessment of the current state of the pandemic in the U.S.

The president continues to cry foul about an election he lost, but he's running out of time and options, as even his own party is beginning to abandon him.

In a rural North Carolina town, photographer Madeline Gray paints an intimate portrait of a girl's basketball team.