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A decade after St. Louis officially reclaimed local control of its police, a Missouri Senate bill would put the department back under state control — a policy originally born out pro-slavery leaders’ attempt to maintain power 150 years ago.

The first week of the new year kicked off with the same ferocity of news that last year ended with.

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with Joshua Yaffa, author of the book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, about Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow this week.

Tea Party conservatives and some liberals agree on key criticisms as the new education standards roll out in 45 states: that they're a one-size-fits-all approach, create a de facto national curriculum, put too much emphasis on standardized tests and undermine teacher autonomy.

U.S. Federal Reserve raises rates for fourth time in 2022, this time by another three-quarters of a percentage point to battle inflation. It's at a size and pace we haven't seen since the 1980s.

The president gave the clearest indication yet that his chief strategist could be on his way out, saying, "I like Steve, but you have to remember, he was not involved in my campaign until very late."

NPR's A Martinez talks to Evan Drellich, a senior writer for The Athletic, who covered the Houston Astro's 2017 cheating scandal. His new book is called: Winning Fixes Everything.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rebecca Roberts about her biography of First Lady Edith Wilson, Untold Power. After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, she made decisions for him.

NPR correspondents in Jerusalem and at the White House take stock after President Biden spoke out against controversial judicial reform proposals in Israel.

Women's ski jumpers fought for more than a decade to compete in the Olympics. Now the U.S. women's team has failed to qualify for Beijing.