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Once upon a time, raising the nation's borrowing limit was considered a fairly routine vote. Today, Biden and the GOP are on a partisan collision course that risks landing the U.S. in default.

Organizers of the Burning Man festival lifted a driving ban on Monday as muddy roads that had stranded thousands of attendees in the Nevada desert had dried up enough to allow people to begin leaving.

In this week’s It’s Just Politics newsletter, Zoe Clark and Rick Pluta dig into the state’s latest unemployment numbers, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s big election announcement and how Governor Gretchen Whitmer plans to work with President-elect Donald Trump.

Families and young women in the United States are paying upwards of $3,000 for the chance to get into the sorority of their choice. With the help of sorority rush coaches, they just might make it in.

White House counsel Dana Remus, who is guiding the effort to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, has worked in Washington for years, but rarely in the spotlight.

While she completed medical school, she never finished residency, and is likely to face tough questions. But her hearing has been canceled because she is pregnant and has gone into labor.

Redrawn congressional maps pit two Democratic incumbents against each other in the Atlanta suburbs.

Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeff Skilling go on trial Monday in Houston. Federal prosecutors will argue that Enron's top executives misled and defrauded investors through deals and statements designed to conceal growing losses at what was once the world's largest energy trading company.

Top finishers in the Atlanta half marathon are calling for U.S. track officials to ensure that Jess McClain and two other athletes aren't excluded from the world championships because of an error.

NPR talks with Politico's Ry Rivard about a ruling that a former Trump personal attorney Alina Habba, appointed as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, has been in the position without legal authority.