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Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed retired Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Presbyterian minister was former chief chaplain of the U.S. Navy.

Executions and new death sentences in the U.S. reached historic lows, with only 17 people executed this year. The pandemic and longer-term trends are moving away from capital punishment, experts say.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Tracy Gordon, a senior fellow with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, about how the pandemic continues to affect local government funding.

The pandemic interrupted what was expected to be a year of reckoning for drug companies tangled up in the opioid crisis. Many communities are left waiting as lawsuits remain on hold.

People all around the world are saying goodbye to 2020, but as coronavirus cases surge in many regions, New Year's Eve events have been seriously scaled down.

The extension means hundreds of thousands of foreigners will continue to have to wait until at least the end of March before having another chance to attain coveted visas.

In his report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice looks at all the ways federal courts remained open this year, comparing it to how courts handled other pandemics.

A Cambodian American lawyer has returned to her homeland to join the resistance to strongman Hun Sen. She says the US needs to pay attention to a country where China is the "elephant in the room."

This fall, the bluegrass supergroup Sister Sadie became the first all-female band ever to win the top prize at the International Bluegrass Music Association awards.

Rosella Liscum died at age 101 last week after contracting COVID-19. At StoryCorps in 2012, she told her daughter, "Just do what's in your heart. Do what's right and have fun."