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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Pennsylvania's top elections official, Al Schmidt, about how the commonwealth is preparing for the Election Day vote count.

It is the first such release in five months from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the first to be approved by Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

The 65-team NCAA men's basketball tournament begins this week. Defending champion Florida, North Carolina, Ohio State, and Kansas are the top seeds. In picking this year's at-large teams, the selection committee favored clubs from the power conferences.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Matt Zemek, editor for Trojans Wire, about the cardiac arrest scare of top USC basketball prospect, Bronny James.

The U.S., India and Brazil lead with the most cases and account for nearly half of the world count. The U.S. alone is poised to hit 10 million cases as hospitalizations continue to climb.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer negotiated late into the night with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and spoke hopefully of a deal coming together on Tuesday.

It was the latest in a series of acts of intimidation in Russia aimed at journalists and critics of the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.

The changes apply to cases of clergy committing violence or sexual assaults against anyone under their authority, as well as minors. The pope also changed rules about child pornography.

The man who leads the criminal division at the Justice Department has a powerful personal story: one of his brothers died in gun violence and another is a police officer.

The airstrike follows a deadly week of attacks that have intensified nearly a year of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah.