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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon, died Friday at age 87.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas at age 87. NPR discusses what her death means for the Supreme Court.

Because of COVID-19, the Trump administration said it needed more time to make sure the national head count is complete and accurate. But in July, it abruptly decided to end counting a month early.

Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.

The White House said on Friday that FEMA will award two grants to help rebuild Puerto Rico's electrical grid system and education infrastructure after 2017's Hurricane Maria.

There's only been one other year — 2005 — that Greek names have been needed. The National Hurricane Center on Friday announced storms called Alpha and Beta have formed in the Atlantic.

Joe Biden leads President Trump in the presidential election nationally by a substantial margin, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. But he is underperforming with likely voters of color.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed its controversial suggestion that people who have been exposed to someone with the virus don't need to be tested if they have no symptoms.

Scott Johnson and his wife, Marybeth Cardin, and their cat escaped from a wildfire in Oregon, leaping from a 50-foot cliff, grabbing a log in a river and finding warmth by a heated boulder.

There are writers on the longlist in five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people's literature. Two debut novels are in the running for the fiction prize.