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In his first address to a joint session of Congress, the president plans to say that he and Congress must work to prove "that our government still works — and can deliver for the people."

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Heather Boushey, an economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, about President Biden's American Families Plan.

President Biden's American Families Plan includes education proposals so ambitious and expensive that in previous years, any one of them would have turned heads.

Researchers are trying to come up with tests that can be performed using a blood sample that will determine not only whether a COVID-19 vaccine will work but also for how long.

The former New York City mayor has been under investigation for years by federal authorities, who have been looking into his business dealings in Ukraine.

With the Greens now leading the polls, their candidate, Annalena Baerbock, 40, is seen as a serious contender. She's moved the once single-issue environmentalist party into the political center.

The quick, painless screening can pick up heart abnormalities that left undetected could lead to life-threatening sudden cardiac arrest.

Biologists say newly efficient and accurate gene sequencing techniques have allowed them to fairly quickly detail full genomes and find overlooked genes in a broad range of 25 important species.

Wednesday's speech will be familiar and unique all at once. The president will still enter down the aisle of the House chamber. But he will also be addressing a masked, socially distanced audience.

The American Families Plan would expand free public education, and make child care more affordable. The White House wants to pay for the measure by raising taxes on the country's richest.