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Democrats and Republicans are going to the brink over tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in a showdown that threatens to send the U.S. over a year-end "fiscal cliff." So what's at the heart of the impasse?

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Justin Williams, a staff writer at The Athletic, about what to look out for when the NCAA basketball tournament starts Tuesday.

Election analysts say Washington state’s August primary, open to all voters and sending the top two candidates to the general election, acts as a “dress rehearsal” for how voters may feel in November.

Jessica Pegula and Aryna Sabalenka will play Saturday for the championship. The men's field will be narrowed to two players on Friday.

The stage is set for 32 club teams — including some of the top ones around the world — to compete for the chance to emerge as the champion of a revamped tournament. It hasn't gone great so far.

Two years after an NPR investigation showed mines owned by Jim Justice failed to pay safety penalties, a new analysis shows he is the nation's top mine safety delinquent and owes millions.

The measure's prospects in the Senate are dim after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he opposed the bipartisan, 9/11-style panel.

This week in both House and Senate hearings, police officials testified on the Jan. 6 insurrection. The rise of right-wing extremism might make preventing the next violent outbreak more challenging.

Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.

Kasem hosted one of the country's most popular countdown shows for four decades. This piece originally aired onWeekend Edition on June 15, 2014.

A legal fight in New Jersey has broken out over the Trump administration's choice for top federal prosecutor in the state, paralyzing criminal proceedings statewide.

Inflation remains a top issue for voters this election year. It's been especially top of mind among parents who have the added financial stress of raising children.

Schiff reflects on the significance of the top-secret documents seized from Trump's residence. He led the first impeachment and serves on the House's committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Four young guys in dark mop-top haircuts, slightly mod suits peer with disarming insoucience from the cover of an album produced by Capitol Records. Meet The Redwalls, who are touring the country with a CD, de nova, that evokes the sound of the early Beatles.

WLRN News has been honored with four Salute to Excellence awards by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). The Salute to Excellence Awards…

Suspected smugglers wanted to take their SUV across the U.S.-Mexico border, so they built ramps that would take it over the Arizona border fence. But unlike the way it would've happened in old episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard, the Jeep got stuck on top of the fence.

For more than 260 weeks, ABC World News Tonight trailed NBC Nightly News. At last, they finally won a week. A software glitch, however, caused ABC to come out on top. NBC was restored to the top spot.

The Wimbledon Tennis Championship drew to a close on Sunday as 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz topped reigning champion and star of the sport Novak Djokovic in a back-and-forth epic.

The House voted to claw back more than $8 billion that Congress had allocated for foreign aid, on top of cuts to aid the Trump administration has already made.

At its height, American tennis consistently fielded the world's top male players. Now that American dominance is gone, so too are many of the top U.S. men's tournaments. They're moving overseas, snapped up by groups offering more lucrative payouts in a sport enjoying huge global appeal.