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A second wave of COVID-19 is rippling across Brazil. The latest hot spot is Rio de Janeiro, hometown of President Jair Bolsonaro. Even so, he is continuing to subvert efforts to control the pandemic.

Listener Steven Marsey plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Sarah McCammon.

Hospital chaplain Matt Norvell has been praying with patients for more than a decade. But the last nine months during the coronavirus pandemic have been the most intense of his career.

Two unemployment programs have expired because President Trump has not signed the COVID-19 relief package that was overwhelmingly passed by both the Senate and the House.

President Trump changed his legal address to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach. But neighbors say under an agreement he signed decades ago, he can't live there after leaving the White House.

Tom Hanks travels from town to town in the Texas frontier a few years after the Civil War, reading newspapers to settlers. When he comes across a young girl who was kidnapped, his life changes.

A sharp increase in online shopping this year means an increased number of things consumers will want to return. But the supply chain made to quickly deliver goods is not so nimble in the reverse.

The emergence of COVID-19 started scientists on a year-long, crash course to learn how this virus might travel through the air and how to stop it. They learned a lot, and quickly.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with singer-songwriter M. Ward about his new album of Billie Holiday covers, "Think of Spring." He uses an acoustic guitar to bring a folk approach to Holiday's jazz songs.

A community art exhibit in suburban Maryland asked residents to consider a simple question: What have you lost, and what have you found in 2020?

They met and fell in love while working for a nonprofit in his country. He came to visit her in the Netherlands. Because of the pandemic, his hometown visit lasted 7 months. Would love conquer all?

Say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021 with live music from some of the best jazz groups performing today, featuring the Catherine Russell Trio, Pink Martini, KOKOROKO and the Jazz Gallery All-Stars.

Watch 20 of the year's greatest Tiny Desk performances, featuring a small sample of the talented artists who delivered intimate sets from NPR Music's D.C. offices.

Problems included a glitch with a sign-up app and some staff jumping to the front of the line, ahead of medical workers with more exposure to coronavirus.

Ant Group's wealth management services are illegal and the the company must undergo major restructuring to come into compliance, regulators say.

Saudi Arabia's terrorism court says Loujain al-Hathloul, who's been in prison since 2018, incited changes to the kingdom's laws and used the Internet to push a foreign agenda.

A fire broke out at Theatre Charlotte overnight Monday, causing significant damage to the theater's auditorium, including its seating, floors, ceiling and technical equipment.

The State Archives of North Carolina is looking for help in transcribing hundreds of old records with handwriting that one expert described as “colonial chicken scratch.”

A new PBS Masterpiece psychological thriller stars Glenda Jackson as a woman desperately trying to solve two mysteries — even as her own grasp of reality is slipping away.

Even as the European Union began vaccine rollouts on Sunday, nations around the globe are instituting severe lockdowns and travel restrictions. Fear of the U.K. variant is a key reason.