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Last month, the House of Representatives voted for only the third time in history to impeach the president. Then something else unusual happened amid the holidays. Nothing.

FARC guerrillas agreed to disarm in a 2016 peace deal, and Colombia's government promised to protect them. But in the years since, nearly 200 former FARC rebels have been attacked and killed.

The speaker was unable to get a vote late Thursday on legislation that includes paid sick leave, nutrition aid and assistance for states, including unemployment and Medicaid costs.

Rick Bright, a scientist for the federal government, has filed a whistleblower complaint. NPR's Ailsa Change talks with Bright's attorney Debra Katz.

Meet Panos Triantafyllou as he trains in Athens for this year's Paralympics, and Faidros Panagopoulos, the man behind a Greek company for custom-built wheelchairs.

Afghanistan's president is resisting a promised prisoner swap, the Taliban has resumed attacks, but U.S. officials are pushing both sides to sit down for a political settlement to end the war.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Jennifer Palmieri, ex-communications director for the Obama administration and for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, about the current landscape for Democrats.

NPR's David Greene talks to Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, a surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign, who says Donald Trump has been awful to the people of the upper Midwest.

The novel earned Jones the $35,000 award for tackling difficult social issues in fiction. The prize's head judge says the book is "going to have a place in the literary imagination for a long time."

This season's final competition, originally scheduled for mid-March, had to be bumped up by two weeks. "The river was already melting," the town's mayor explained.