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"She tried to do her job and it killed her," Dr. Lorna Breen's father said of the 49-year-old doctor, who contracted the coronavirus. His daughter was a hero, Dr. Philip Breen says.

Despite a partisan divide over increasing absentee voting, about half of all Republicans support universal access to a mail-in ballot, according a new Pew Research poll.

Bryce Canyon National Park is closed due to the coronavirus. But ranger Peter Densmore says the park is still alive with the sounds of spring, even without the hum of hikers and tourists.

Researchers in Israel have grown date palm trees from ancient seeds found at the same site as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Those trees might soon produce fruit, re-creating the taste of antiquity.

On Monday, the holiday — which was extended to help slow the coronavirus outbreak — comes to an end in the capital. The city is preparing for a potential increase in infections.

More than two years after Trump dramatically shrank the protected land in Utah, the Bureau of Land Management released the framework for the move, despite continuing challenges to its legality.

A hospital in China says a doctor who was reprimanded by authorities for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus has died from the illness. Dr. Li Wenliang was a 34-year-old opthalmologist.

A comedian offers his "Mobituary" for the Iowa caucuses, which, after this week, may have hammered the nails in their own coffins.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Heidi Schlumpf of the National Catholic Reporter about how one political group is using "geofencing" of cellphone data to target Catholic voters at Sunday Mass.

One central New York prosecutor said something that’s been lost in the debate over new bail reform laws in New York State, is how changes in the discovery…