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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jonathan Shaub, a former U.S. Department of Justice legal adviser, about how the Trump administration is stymieing impeachment hearings with legally untested doctrine.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR's Jessica Taylor about tonight's state elections as results come in.

Election officials in Pennsylvania set up a secure PDF so that Andrew Morgan could vote from the comfort of the International Space Station. No word on whether he got an "I voted" sticker.

The drama Lionheart is the first film Nigeria has submitted for consideration for an Academy Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualified it because it's in English.

Deadly protests in Iraq continue even after the country's prime minister agreed to step down. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to former Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S. Rend Al-Rahim.

Gaines wrote of the struggles of African Americans in rural Louisiana before the civil rights era. He wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men, and A Lesson Before Dying.

After the members of a Mormon family were shot to death in Sonora, Mexico, this week, a relative of the victims says the rest of the community won't let drug violence drive them from the region.

The committees conducting the impeachment inquiry released transcripts from two key witnesses: Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine.

Attempts to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop a treatment for cancer seem safe and feasible in the earliest findings from the first three patients. "So far, so good," scientists say.

A new study in Brazil finds that urban apartments have more diverse fungi — some healthy, some potentially not — than villages in the Amazon rainforest.