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Jack Smith's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee marked the first open testimony about his work after presiding over two federal criminal indictments of President Trump.

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency.

FBI Director Kash Patel said agents disrupted a plan to attack Sunday's UFC event at the White House. NPR's A Martinez speaks with former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem.

The aid flotilla, which includes activist Greta Thunberg, was headed for Gaza to break Israel's blockade

Jan. 1 is the day the extra financial help to buy Affordable Care Act health insurance goes away.

Melissa Block interviews John Armbruster, a seismologist with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University, about why he believes the waste from fracking in Ohio has led to the earthquakes there. He says the injection of waste water from the fracking process created pressure on nearby faults, and he expects the quakes to continue — even after the process is stopped.

By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.

A podcast by two Israelis re-examines the war in Gaza and its impact on Israeli society.

Attacks on civilians have brought global violence to record levels. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to researcher Therése Pettersson at Uppsala University in Sweden.

FBI director Kash Patel says yesterday's mass shooting at a Minnesota church was domestic terrorism, driven by hate-filled ideology. But extremism analysts say their research points to something else.