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For a brief period in 1860 and 1861, the mail delivery service reduced the time it took to carry messages from Missouri to California to just 10 days.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with two religious leaders, Imam Rizwan Ali and Reverend Thomas McKenzie, about President Trump's decision to classify houses of worship as essential during the pandemic.

The motorcade carrying the body of President George H.W. Bush arrives at the Washington National Cathedral . Morning Edition monitors and updates.

A college student's bill for outpatient knee surgery is a whopper — $96K — but the most mysterious part is a $1,167 charge from a health care provider she didn't even know was in the operating room.

That's how the United Nations characterizes the violence against women that, based on past evidence, has been exacerbated by coronavirus lockdowns.

Community and charity groups are scrambling to provide care where the VA is failing veterans who left the military with less-than-honorable discharges. Many of these groups have extensive experience with the problem; they say tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans faced the same problem.

The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized.

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at his life and his contentious relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.

Many Afghan "Zero Unit" fighters who served under the CIA now feel they are being abandoned after seeking asylum in the U.S. They've faced despair and isolation - and some have taken their own lives.

The Trump administration's changes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are taking an axe to the agency's traditional mission of ensuring people lawfully immigrate and stay in the U.S.