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For all the national interest in the congressional special election in upstate New York, it was Bill Owens' focus on local issues that made the difference. The Democrat won the seat that had been a safe Republican stronghold for more than a century.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has a long history with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. What will that mean for President-Elect Biden's time in the White House?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jose Romero, chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization committee, about the committee's recommendations for coronavirus vaccination.

President Trump took Florida by a much bigger margin Tuesday than he did in 2016. And he might have done this by peeling away Hispanic voters, scaring many from Joe Biden by associating him with socialists from countries they fled.

With the coronavirus surging, an El Paso, Texas, county judge ordered all nonessential businesses to close. But after several business owners and the state attorney sued, a court put the plan on hold.

How tall is Mount Everest? It varies with seismic activity and climate change. China and Nepal have remeasured the world's tallest mountain, and will announce their findings.

Mountains on Pluto look strikingly similar to white-capped peaks on Earth, but these cold, alien mountains got whitened in a completely different way.

Photographer Carolyn Russo says these beacons of the landscape serve as "cultural greeters." Her dramatic photographs are on display at the Air and Space museum in Washington, D.C.

Arizona was heavily contested and Joe Biden has come out on top. In 2016, Trump won the state by four points. Democrats had been hopeful to make gains since they flipped a Senate seat there in 2018.

In 2016, Black voters were the top target of foreign disinformation campaigns. In 2020, there are both foreign and domestic efforts to dissuade Black and Latino voters from casting ballots.

Hong Kong's district elections are drawing out large crowds and are seen as a referendum on government handling of ongoing protests.

Netflix's adult animation series about a washed-up sitcom star who happens to be a horse set its serious examinations of addiction, trauma and mental illness against a bright, cartoony backdrop.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute about why she thinks killing a top Iranian general was a shrewd move by the Trump administration.

The U.S. Postal Service is overseen by a board of governors, all of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump. Now there are calls for President Biden to reevaluate the board.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Sunday that all U.S. sanctions must end before Tehran will return to its commitment under the 2015 nuclear accord.

The the first international athletes have arrived in Japan ahead of the Olympics that start on July 23. The country has also started vaccinating its own athletes.

Brazil will host Copa America, one of the world's top soccer tournaments, after original host Argentina was dropped due to a surge in COVID cases. But Brazil also has been hit hard by the pandemic.

Top Democrats are vowing to intensify their scrutiny of Big Banks as they look to push the sector to do more for average Americans and underserved communities.

Regulators say Mexico is not complying with international air safety standards, and have limited Mexican airlines' access to the U.S., just as passenger traffic is picking up from the pandemic.

Huge crowds are mourning a militia leader who was killed in the same attack as Iran's top general. And, the Pentagon says some U.S. forces are being repositioned inside Iraq, not leaving the country.