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Brazil has more law schools the rest of the world combined and more lawyers per capita than the U.S. But there's a huge legal backlog: One department of five judges is now handling 1.6 million cases.

A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Elisa Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, about the latest monthly jobs report published Friday.

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

President Biden has arranged a meeting with four congressional leaders to discuss raising the debt ceiling. Plus, another sizeable gift for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas comes to light.

Impeachment managers argued that not taking action against former President Donald Trump jeopardizes the country's standing in the eyes of the global community.

The spike in food, fuel and fertilizer prices sparked by the war in Ukraine is threatening to push countries around the world into famine, a U.N. official warns.

Many Louisiana business owners say they're not getting a fair share of disaster relief contracts from the federal government, despite the vast rebuilding needed in the region after Hurricane Katrina. Only a tiny proportion of Federal Emergency Management Agency recovery contracts has gone to Louisiana firms.

Former President Donald Trump's family company has long been involved in countless business disputes that landed it in civil court. But it has never been tried in a court of law for crimes, until now.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor on the Robert Mueller probe, about what's next for the special counsel on the Trump investigations.