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Sen. J.D. Vance formally accepts his party’s vice presidential nomination at the Republican convention Wednesday night. His close ties to tech billionaires might supercharge Trump's reelection bid.

In May, Democrats decided to hold their roll call vote for their nominee well before the party’s convention. But the plan has rubbed some lawmakers the wrong way.

After years of promises and more than $1 billion of investment, Paris’s once-filthy river is finally swimmable. And the mayor proved it just days before the July 26 Olympic deadline.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the Secret Service, an agency of the DHS.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Caroline Sunshine, deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, about the convention and if the assassination attempt on ex-President Trump changed its plans.

In recent history, labor unions overwhelmingly back Democrats. President Biden calls himself the most pro-union president ever. But at the RNC, the head of the teamsters had a prime speaking slot.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jonah Goldberg, editor and co-founder of The Dispatch, about the choice of Vance, who once described former President Trump using words like “idiot” and “Hitler.”

Cities across the country are using billions of dollars in federal funding to make streets safer. But in some places, that's accelerating conflict with local residents who don't like the changes.

Republicans hope to return Wisconsin to former President Donald Trump in November. While they hope the RNC can deliver resources, they are also building a ground game to engage voters new voters.

A radiologist in Gaza tells NPR he endured beatings and mistreatment during seven months in Israeli detention. Israel has incarcerated thousands of Gazans since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.