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Aging populations on Medicaid seeking care are often pushed toward nursing homes, but geriatric psychiatrists say aging at home is better for quality of life.

While the president has always spread his insults far and wide, the volume of personal insults and extreme language that he directed at African Americans in Congress stood out.

Carlita Lewis remembers her mother, Eileen Moody-Lee, who died of COVID-19 in August. Her mom, who worked at the Indian Health Service Unit in Arizona, loved R.E.M's song, "Losing My Religion."

In 1963, William Lewis Moore was murdered in Alabama while on a civil rights protest walk. Silence around the murder bothered one man for years, until he campaigned to put up a marker about it.

This week, President Trump pardoned allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It is part of an uptick in "insider pardons" issued in his second term, one legal expert says.

President Trump's U.K. state visit this week won't include the Scottish island where his late immigrant mother was born. Mary Anne MacLeod was a Gaelic speaker who learned English as a second language.

The Senate debates Miguel Estrada's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Republicans urge quick confirmation, but Democrats say Estrada's record doesn't merit a lifetime appointment and hint at a filibuster to defeat him. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.

A National Guardsman has been arrested and accused of attempting to give U.S. military information to the al Qaeda terrorist network. Defense officials say Spc. Ryan G. Anderson, 26, offered intelligence in extremist chat rooms. Anderson, held at Fort Lewis in Washington state, will reportedly be charged with aiding the enemy. Hear NPR's Wendy Kaufman.

Massive demonstrations in Washington in support of abortion rights bring high-profile speakers and vocal opposition. Organizers called the event the "March for Women's Lives." While hundreds of thousands of marchers rallied to the capital, anti-abortion activists turned out in force, as well. Hear NPR's Libby Lewis, NPR's Cheryl Corley and former Texas governor Ann Richards.

CIA Director George Tenet tells the Sept. 11 commission it will take another five years to fix problems with U.S. intelligence operations that allowed the 2001 attacks to happen. Tenet acknowledges his agency failed to uncover the Sept. 11 plot. But he says a panel report was wrong in concluding the CIA had no strategic plan to fight terror before the attacks. Hear NPR's Libby Lewis.