Iowa's decades-long lock on the nominating process has been under threat since last year's disastrous caucus, when results were delayed for days due in part to a faulty smartphone app.
With President Biden and other Democratic leaders in their 70s and 80s, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee says recruiting younger candidates will be among his top priorities.
Speakers at the service see a "new America" and embrace a range of progressive causes. "The only way to establish domestic tranquility is to establish justice," the Rev. William Barber II says.
After a chaotic four years, Biden is calling for calm. A new tone was set, but a return to the same old partisan bickering won't solve the problem of millions fed a daily diet of false information.
A Democratic majority, even a thin one, allows the party to set the chamber's legislative agenda and makes it easier to confirm President Biden's Cabinet picks.
President Biden called for Americans to listen to one another and to disagree on the basis of facts, obliquely invoking the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol as the cost of trafficking in lies.
Pipeliners Local 798, which represents thousands of workers on projects across the country, has a history of racism and faces new allegations it discriminated against Black members.
A Twitter spokesperson said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene violated the company policy it recently used to remove thousands of QAnon-related accounts. Her account was suspended for 12 hours.
Michel Martin speaks with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel about the threat of armed protests and extremist violence in her state ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
President-elect Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress have called Trump's insistence that the election was rigged the "big lie." The term has roots in Nazi Germany and echoes throughout fascist states.
In the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, 58% say Trump is responsible for the riot at the Capitol, but most Republicans don't — and most of them don't accept the accuracy of the election either.
The top U.S. prosecutor for the District of Columbia cited a "disconnect" after federal prosecutors in Arizona said there was "strong evidence" that pro-Trump rioters intended to kill officials.
Georgia was ground zero for misinformation and attacks on election integrity, led by President Trump and a number of top Republicans in Georgia and beyond.
Under pressure to resign after supporters stormed the Capitol last week, President Trump heads to Texas. With only a week to go in office, it's a last-ditch attempt to burnish his legacy.
Even though both parties ran unified campaigns, nearly 20,000 Georgians appear to have split their votes in the two races, between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican David Perdue.
Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase faces calls to resign after attending the rally before, she says, it turned into a riot. Following the events, she called those who stormed the Capitol "patriots."
The Missouri senator is being criticized for being a leader of the baseless challenge to the results of the presidential election, which led to the storming of Capitol Hill by Trump extremists.
Dominion Voting Systems is seeking damages after a series of outrageous claims by Sidney Powell, an attorney who supported President Trump's objections to the 2020 race.
The woman killed by United States Capitol Police was identified as Ashli E. Babbitt, 35, of San Diego. She was one of four who died during Wednesday's events.
The House speaker said she had already made her opinion known to Vice President Pence, and if he and the Cabinet don't act, "Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment."
