Philadelphia to reinstate its mask mandate after a rise in COVID cases
The city will require masks in schools, businesses, government buildings and restaurants starting April 18.
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Biden picks a former federal prosecutor to lead the ATF as it targets 'ghost guns'
President Biden has picked Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney in Ohio, to lead the agency as it cracks down on so-called "ghost guns," which are assembled from parts and lack serial numbers.
Fractured access to abortion sets a backdrop for upcoming Supreme Court ruling
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute about the state of abortion access in the U.S., ahead of a Supreme Court decision on a Mississippi abortion ban.
From Nuremberg to Darfur, history has seen some war criminals brought to trial
Responsibility is difficult to prove conclusively in a war zone, and evidence might have to link such acts to national leaders far from the battlefield. But it has happened.
After 232 years, Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman on the Supreme Court
Ayesha Rascoe asks Biden administration strategist Minyon Moore about Biden's successful nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
A college exam taker gets prison and a coach is convicted in the admissions scam
A former Florida prep school administrator was sentenced to four months in prison and a decorated water polo coach at the University of Southern California was swiftly convicted of fraud and bribery.
More details emerge in federal investigation into Hunter Biden
In 2020, much of the mainstream media dismissed a story about Hunter Biden's business dealings. Now emails supporting the story have been authenticated. Was the media too deferential to the Bidens?
A former Goldman Sachs banker is found guilty in a plot to loot Malaysia's 1MDB fund
Roger Ng was convicted in a New York federal court of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack the Malaysian state investment fund.
Judge Jackson is the 1st, but hopefully not last, Black woman Supreme Court Justice
A day after her Supreme Court confirmation, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson paid tribute to the path-breaking Black Americans who she said did the heavy lifting which made this moment possible.
2 found not guilty in Michigan governor kidnapping plot
Jurors in Michigan acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gove Gretchen Whitmer. The jury deadlocked over charges of two other defendants and the judge declared a mistrial for them.