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President-elect Trump wants Kash Patel to lead the FBI. He is also making tariff threats that could be mostly bluster. It's impossible to tell.

The turnout rate in this year's presidential election was relatively high — and Republicans did really well, contradicting conventional political wisdom that high turnout benefits Democrats.

The presidential election is over, and the complicated two-month sprint has begun to hand over the levers of power from one administration to the next.

Voters in North Carolina are being courted by both Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns. In Granville county, a competitive area, voters have a variety of views and some remain undecided.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., about the ongoing partial government shutdown and the Senate GOP's meeting with President Trump on Wednesday.

Last year, the number of homeless U.S. veterans on a given night fell 12 percent from the year before. But tens of thousands were still on the streets, and more could soon join them as troops return home. President Obama has vowed to end veterans' homelessness by 2015.

The debate: Why have male CEOs, who promised the moon and failed, not been prosecuted? Holmes faces possible prison time over fraud charges tied to her former blood-testing company Theranos.

The order comes in reaction to the U.S. closure of China's consulate in Houston earlier this week. China's state broadcaster says the U.S. Consulate was given 72 hours to close.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Carol Greenwald, executive producer at GBH Kids, about how her team is formatting the beloved cartoon "Arthur" as a podcast.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Rob Kelner of the law firm Covington and Burling about the vetting process for presidential nominees.