The federal government has yet to approve plans in most states for giving out money that was authorized in October.

Despite days of widespread incitement on social media in advance of the insurrection encouraging extremist Trump supporters to assault the U.S. Capitol, law enforcement was unprepared and overwhelmed.

The vice president-elect joins NPR to discuss the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the looming impeachment trial in the Senate and the massive rescue plan the president-elect just unveiled.

Corey Johnson is the 12th inmate to die by lethal injection since July, when the Trump administration restarted federal executions after a 17 year hiatus.