2020 presidential election

Joe Biden gives his first address to the nation as president. NPR reporters from across the newsroom are providing live fact checks and analysis of the remarks.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as president and vice president of the United States on Wednesday. Follow live special coverage throughout the day beginning at 11 a.m. ET.

In the month leading up to Election Day, most public opinion polls showed former Vice President Joe Biden leading by a sizable margin, yet his margin of victory was much closer than many pollsters predicted. As Washington University professor Liberty Vittert writes in a recent editorial, “How were all the pollsters so wrong, again, even after the soul searching and methodological recalibrating that followed 2016?”

Election authorities are busy processing those absentee and mail-in ballots and preparing for what could be record-breaking voter turnout. More than 100,000 Missouri voters have already cast a ballot through early voting.

President Trump is far from the first president to face serious illness in office. And it’s not just President Roosevelt or President Wilson who kept the details from the American public. Washington University history professor Peter Kastor puts the president’s bout with COVID-19 in context — and the media’s role in pressing for details or giving the White House a wide zone of privacy.

President Trump is campaigning on a "law and order" platform. He has blamed protesters and Democratic mayors for the uptick in violent crime this summer. But a local criminologist says Trump is wrong about the underlying causes of the increase nationwide and in St. Louis.

President Trump is accepting the Republican nomination for president on Thursday. NPR reporters are providing analysis of his remarks live.

Follow live updates and analysis of Day 4 of the Republican National Convention. President Trump caps off the week with his address.

Follow live updates and analysis of Day 3 of the Republican National Convention. Vice President Pence headlines the night.

Follow live updates and analysis of Day 2 of the Republican National Convention. First lady Melania Trump headlines the night.