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The Labor Department reports that the nation's unemployment rate rose 6.5 percent last month. The number of jobs lost were a lot higher than expected. The report indicates that the downturn in the economy this year has been even deeper and more dramatic than most economists had expected. The jobless rate is at a 14-year high.

The reverberations from Thursday's presidential debate continue, alongside consequential Supreme Court rulings.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld laws in roughly half the states that ban transgender medical care for minors. The vote was 6-to-3, along ideological lines.

Two rulings — in federal and state courts — make it increasingly likely that Kroger might abandon its $24.6 billion plan to buy Albertsons. The merger aimed to combine two of America's largest supermarket chains.

Former President Trump is facing multiple criminal charges, ratcheting up pressure on his 2024 rivals to weigh in on whether he deserves a pardon if convicted.

Donald Trump held a press conference Tuesday to address questions about charitable donations he claimed to make in support of military veterans.

NPR asks Michelle Bercovici, an employment lawyer who mostly represents federal employees, about what the Trump administration's offer to almost all federal workers to resign by Feb. 6 means for them.

Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, is set to launch as early as 6:24 p.m. Wednesday.

There was still a big elephant not in the room ahead of tonight's Fox News Iowa Republican debate: Donald Trump.

The sheer volume of loss felt by the music world in 2020 is almost overwhelming. Here is NPR's tribute to dozens of the musicians — founders and innovators across genres — who died this year.