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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with three women who are shaping U.S. economic policy about how the Biden administration plans to tackle economic losses suffered by women in the pandemic.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is said to have more health problems, and supporters have protested at his prison to demand he receive better medical treatment.

The U.S. and Iran have started indirect talks — mediated by other countries — to try to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that former President Trump pulled the U.S. out of.

A Republican state senator from Beason wants to standardize election practices across the state. She says she wants to bring transparency to the election process.

Composer Johnny Mandel died at the age of 94. He's best known for award-winning pieces like The Shadow of Your Smile and the theme to the TV show M*A*S*H.

A truly open seat election for Congress is relatively rare and tends to attract a lot of interest from ambitious pols. U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos' retirement creates a wide open field in the 17th Congressional District next year.

A dismal jobs report, on top of millions of unemployment claims, paints a dire picture of the economic carnage of the coronavirus. NPR correspondents examine that — and take a look at mask science.

As the economy reels from record unemployment and states continue to increase their social distancing guidelines, the federal government is working to implement relief measures.

Seven years after choosing to remain in the United Kingdom and five years after opposing Brexit, voters in Scotland are going to the polls once again Thursday to elect a new parliament.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with George Clooney — actor, director, raconteur — about his new science fiction movie, The Midnight Sky, and the place we find ourselves in at the end of 2020.