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Applications for jobless benefits are up again. "What we're seeing now is that lots more people who are unemployed are going to be unemployed for a longer period of time," economist Nick Bunker says.

The Tanglewood Music Festival and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art bring the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts up to $150 million every year. But this year both of them are closed.

President Trump aims to rally U.S. Catholics to support his reelection. The effort is dividing Catholics along partisan lines and within congregations.

In Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis says four police officers involved in the death of a black man while in police custody have been terminated. The FBI is investigating the incident.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Monique Dixon of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, about the organization's suggestions for improving transparency in police contracts.

After a 2012 gang rape on a New Delhi bus, India increased prison terms for rape. But ghastly cases still dominate the news, and most rape still goes unreported — and unprosecuted.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with ambassador John Bass, who just left his post after two years in Afghanistan, about the state of U.S. policy there and what changes he's seen during his time.

As the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary get close, what keeps low-polling candidates in the race? A sense that a state like New Hampshire could deliver an upset, as it has in the past.

Marches took place across the country, from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco to snowy upstate New York. Leaders called for unity as controversy and questions of inclusivity loomed over the event.

Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., recently announced his intent to run for president, saying the 2020 election should focus on changing the economic outlook for millennials.