The role of Belarus' Lukashenko in resolving the Russia-Wagner Group conflict
A major player in resolving the dispute between the Wagner Group and the Russian state over the weekend was Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko.
Politics & Government
Presidential campaign talking point: Fort Bragg's name change
Confederate General Braxton Bragg's name was recently stripped from the nation's largest Army base. The name change has since become a presidential campaign talking point.
EV charging station network is among Biden administration's green energy ambitions
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is traveling across the Southeast to promote the Biden administration's plans for green energy, including building a network of charging stations for electric cars.
A look at Biden's intimate donor events
President Biden is making the rounds with donors in Chevy Chase, Md., Manhattan and Chicago this week. At these intimate off-camera events, his comments sometimes go beyond what he says in public.
Winston-Salem allocates funds to monitor recipients of COVID relief grants
Winston-Salem is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is being spent wisely by community organizations.
78 people face charges for $2.5 billion in attempted health care fraud, DOJ says
At least $1.1 billion was actually paid out in these schemes targeting elderly patients, high-risk and low-income pregnant women and HIV patients.
Remember Reaganomics? Freakonomics? Now there's Bidenomics
Jared Bernstein, President Biden's new top economic adviser, says that Bidenomics is "about getting things that are pretty granular done." And that it's working.
North Carolina GOP bars promotion of certain beliefs in state government, 1 of 6 veto overrides
North Carolina's GOP-dominated legislature swept six bills into law Tuesday with veto overrides, including one barring promotion of certain beliefs in state government workplaces that some lawmaker
The Supreme Court rejects independent state legislature theory
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at New York University, about the Supreme Court's ruling to protect voting rights in federal elections.
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court
The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.