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Congress returns to work for a lame duck session. Democrats try to advance their agenda while they have control of both chambers. Republicans plan for control of the House in the new year.

As former President Donald Trump is indicted again, this time on charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, here's a look at the political implications of these criminal proceedings.

Combined spending in the 2012 federal election cycle could top a record six billion dollars, according to a recent estimate. Guests also discuss how newly drawn districts altered the dynamics of several congressional races across the country, particularly in California.

Diana Vreeland had a troubled childhood; her mother often told her she was ugly. But she later became editor-in-chief of American Vogue and one of the country's most revered fashion icons. Her life is captured in the new biography, Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland. Host Michel Martin talks with author Amanda Mackenzie Stuart.

Don McGahn's tenure was capped by shaping Brett Kavanaugh's fight-back rebuttal against allegations of sexual assault. The office has been a perch for major figures from John Dean to Alberto Gonzales.

Vegetable farmers in Yuma, Ariz., are asking whether they can co-exist in the same valley with a large cattle feedlot. Those cattle are blamed for contaminating Romaine with toxic E. coli bacteria.

MacFarlane is best known for creating the animated TV shows Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. But he's also a singer whose new album features songs from the Great American Songbook.

MacFarlane is best known for creating the animated TV shows Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. But he's also a singer whose new album features songs from the Great American Songbook.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to the writer and director of the new movie Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with community organizer Shameka Parrish-Wright and Kentucky state Rep. Attica Scott about what steps activists want to see taken to end police brutality against Black people.