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Thomas Wheeler led the Justice Department's civil rights unit through a period of transition. He told lawyers he never intended to stay in the job permanently.

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys and four associates have been charged with seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

President Bush signs a housing bill that could help struggling homeowners stay in their homes and stabilize the nation's troubled housing market, while tightening regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. NPR's Brian Naylor discusses the bill and explains the key points that every homeowner should know.

The news of the leak of life-and-death operational details to a reporter lands differently with veterans and active-duty troops, who can be prosecuted for much less significant "spillage" incidents.

Statistical analyst Nate Silver says humility is key to making accurate predictions. Silver, who writes the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog, has just written a new book called The Signal and the Noise.

Is there a crisis of morale at the CIA? To some observers, news that an employee was fired last week for leaking classified information raises the question. Mary O. McCarthy was dismissed on Thursday, accused of leaking classified information about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe.

The House committee investigating Jan. 6 says it has evidence showing that former President Trump broke the law by trying to overturn the 2020 election.

The U.S. economy continued to lose jobs in May, but at a slower pace than it has been, giving credence to the idea that the recession is nearing an end. Still, the unemployment rate climbed to 9.4 percent, and wage growth has slowed to a trickle.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rate cut in a key speech this morning. He was speaking at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.

A decade and a half after TV stations shut down analog broadcasts and fully transitioned to digital, the industry is once again making major changes to the way stations transmit over-the-air signals.