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The number of murders in the U.S. rose nearly 30% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to FBI statistics. It is the largest single-year increase since the record-keeping began.

NPR's Scott Simon revisits a 2018 conversation with Maria Ressa who runs the Filipino investigative news site Rappler. Ressa was one of two journalists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

New York has agreed to a $1.1 billion settlement with three of the nation’s largest drug distributors — Cardinal Health, McKesson and Amerisource Bergen — over claims they helped fuel the opioid epidemic.

This year, for the first time, online-only news organizations — not just newspapers — are eligible in all 14 of the Pulitzer Prize journalism categories.

Under the policy, federal employees who are not confirmed as vaccinated would be required to wear masks at all times while at work and be tested regularly for the virus.

Former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden filed a lawsuit against the NFL, accusing the league and its commissioner of trying to destroy his career using a "malicious and orchestrated campaign."

After days of bargaining over safety precautions, the Chicago Teachers Union and city officials have reached an agreement to restart in-person teaching.

Leaders in the civil rights community are pushing the department and other cabinet agencies to take more aggressive action.

The Iraqi government has imposed a mid-day traffic ban in Baghdad and in the town of Baqouba, about 30 miles northwest of the capital. That's near where terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed Wednesday. There are fears Zarqawi supporters will stage reprisal attacks.

Fifty years ago -- and two years before the famed bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. -- black citizens in Baton Rouge, La., staged what's believed to be the first-ever organized protest of Jim Crow laws in the South. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on the anniversary of the Baton Rouge bus boycott.