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Someone who has COVID-19 without symptoms can still infect other people. Getting more people tested can help stop the spread. The first step is understanding the obstacles and finding solutions.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Erika Pohlman, who is grieving the loss of what could have been, after experiencing a miscarriage earlier this year.

Conservatives now have a 6-to-3 majority — a vote to spare on any given issue. Experts expect the new majority to move aggressively on an agenda more conservative than any seen since the 1930s.

A bipartisan group of 10 former secretaries of defense criticized attempts to challenge November's presidential election and called it a dangerous threat to the nation's security.

In recorded call, Trump pushed official to overturn Georgia vote totals. Tuesday's runoff in Georgia could flip control of the Senate. Plus, concerns the holidays will cause another COVID-19 spike.

Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek died on Nov. 8 after nearly two years of being treated for pancreatic cancer. Friday's finale will include a special tribute to Trebek's life.

A campaign to make Disney's Ratatouille into a musical raised more than a million for the Actors Fund. The musical's songwriter lays out how the idea went from TikTok to a phenomenon.

Both parties have launched an all-out, last-minute effort to turn out voters ahead of Tuesday's Georgia Senate runoff elections. The races will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.

There's concern of a post holiday COVID-19 surge in cases and deaths. Plus the vaccination program is off to a slow start, and the new more contagious variant is spreading across the U.S.

The law regulated gatherings of 500 or more people lasting longer than 12 hours. It was passed in 1971, soon after the Woodstock concert in New York. LaGrange did not want to host the next one.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said testing for COVID-19 was more readily available in richer, whiter communities in the state. He added: "This can't happen again, and it can't happen with this vaccine."

Critics say the ruling party overhauled public media to serve as a mouthpiece and a state-backed oil refiner's purchase of a newspaper chain brings more outlets under party loyalist control.

The presidential election is over, but the fight for Congress is anything but.

Who are we as a nation? And who do we need to be going forward?

Major League Baseball's decision to eliminate 40 minor league teams is angering residents. In cities big and small, these teams are as much a cultural identity as an inexpensive and fun family outing.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a proposal to vote on the House bill on $2,000 direct payments. Also, the Senate will vote Wednesday to override President Trump's veto of the NDAA.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers spent two years examining how to make Congress work better. A Democrat and a Republican who led the effort discuss their findings and views on the new Congress.

Rita Martinez, a community organizer in Pueblo, Colo., was probably best known for her lengthy fight to remove the city's Columbus Day statue. She died from COVID-19 at age 65.

The clock at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, traditionally runs three minutes fast and is set back to match Greenwich Mean Time only on Dec. 31. This year, it will keep running fast.

Public transit agencies in the U.S. are struggling with lower ridership and revenues during the pandemic. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with transit experts about whether subway and bus systems can survive.