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This is part of our election-year series, Money Machines, looking at campaign spending in the 2018 election . The first article can be found here .

This was meant to be the year we answered a big question about the deadly opioid epidemic: Will drug companies that make and sell prescription pain medications be held liable? That clarity never came.

Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites connected to this key part of history.

The Carolinas' recovery from Hurricane Florence is already raising difficult questions about repeated flooding.

President Biden and Vice President Harris are heading to Atlanta as pressure grows on police to file hate crime charges in the killings of 6 women of Asian descent.

We look at the case against former president Donald Trump, as well as the revelation that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas didn't disclose trips he accepted from a friend who is also a GOP donor.

Wildfires, hurricanes, flooding — this fall has brought a wave of natural disasters to the U.S. With that comes many days where schools are closed — and those absences add up.

Last January, NPR's Ari Shapiro went on a road trip to talk with voters in the days leading up to the inauguration of President Trump. We check back in with one of the people we met — strawberry farmer Chuck Wooten, who voted for President Trump.

A new Texas law that makes it harder to open polling places on college campuses is being challenged in court as young voters become more politically active in the state.

The lawyer, who represented Stormy Daniels and is already facing federal financial crimes charges, has been indicted on 36 counts of embezzlement and fraud by a California federal grand jury.