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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance held a rally in Middletown, his hometown, as the party tries to pivot from a campaign tailored to take on President Biden, who dropped out of the race.

Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy seconds before he shot the Black woman three times in her home. An Illinois grand jury indicted former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson, 30, who is white, last week.

The vice president is poised to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, according to an Associated Press delegate tally, and said she looks "formally accepting the nomination soon."

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. announces additional aid to Haiti on a lightning visit to the troubled Caribbean island.

Finding and getting medical care can be a challenge, especially for older people in rural areas. To help fill in these gaps, over a dozen towns in Vermont and New Hampshire have something called a community nurse. Some towns think this saves money by limiting unnecessary 911 calls and hospital trips.

Murder charges have been filed against a fired Illinois deputy sheriff who fatally shot a woman who had called 911 for help. A video tape of the shooting in Springfield was released Monday.

Does a younger Democratic presidential candidate have the potential to energize younger voters? NPR's A Martinez talks to Santiago Mayer, the executive director of Voters of Tomorrow.

Vice President Harris likely has a strong claim to the funds, but not all legal experts agree. Moreover, the Federal Election Commission works too slowly to make much of an impact on the race.

Devastating power outages and destruction in Houston left by Hurricane Beryl again underscored the city’s inability to sufficiently fortify itself against extreme weather events worsened by climate change. This was the lowest level hurricane, a Category One, and yet it knocked out power to millions and left the nation’s fourth largest city reeling. Past horrific hurricanes, including Ike in 2008 and Harvey in 2017, made crystal clear that the city needed to bolster its infrastructure including expanding flood-plain protections, burying more power lines underground, and hardening its power grid. But those city, state and corporate efforts have repeatedly fallen short.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Scott Boback, a professor of Biology at Dickinson College, who co-leads Project RattleCam — a webcam aimed at a mega-den holding hundred of pregnant rattlesnakes.