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President-elect Donald Trump appeared virtually for his criminal sentencing in Manhattan Friday morning, in a historic first for a former or sitting president.

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona talks with NPR's Juana Summers about what went wrong and what went right in his department during the Biden administration.

Close to a million migrants will be shielded from deportation for up to 18 months.

TikTok will be asking the Supreme Court to strike down a law that could ban the app in a matter of days. The Justice Department says the law should be upheld, since it considers China a national security threat. TikTok's parent company is based in Beijing. The wild card is President-elect Donald Trump, who has asked the high court to not rule to allow him to cut a deal that would save the service.

About 24 million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act plans with about a week to go in open enrollment. But that could all change when President-elect Trump takes office.

"We are going to do everything we can in this round to get all the American hostages, living and dead, out," Ambassador Jacob J. Lew tells NPR. His tenure as President Biden's envoy ends this month.

NPR's Brian Mann spends time with a Ukrainian mobile artillery unit as they prep their Soviet-era mobile cannon for a nighttime attack. Their goal? Stop Russia from crossing the Dnipro River and taking Kherson.

The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.

Climate change is driving worse weather "whiplash" in places like California, creating conditions for more intense wildfires like the devastating blazes in LA.

Southern States not used to a lot of snow are dealing with winter storm Cora which is causing cancellations, power outages and traffic snarls.

Winds have diminished somewhat in the Los Angeles area, but big fires are ongoing -- even as tens of thousands are starting their recovery journeys.

Atlanta has seen nearly 1,000 flights grounded, while more than 34,000 Arkansans have lost power.