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The director of national intelligence and the FBI director said on Wednesday night that U.S. officials believe Iranian influence-mongers are behind an election-intimidation scam.

Experimental medicines have the potential to help people with COVID-19 avoid hospitalization. The scarce supply of the treatments would have to be rationed, if regulators OK their use.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will hear from county health officials Tuesday night as they decide whether it's safe to continue in-person classes.

The federal government has released detailed local data on where hospitals are starting to fill up with patients. Researchers and health leaders say this was urgently needed.

A federal judge in Washington found that the administration's proposed ban was "arbitrary and capricious" and the president overstepped his authority in using emergency economic powers.

Chuck Yeager has died: Fighter ace, test pilot, breaker of the sound barrier, coolest of the cool — he was the man even astronauts looked up to. NPR's Russell D. Lewis has this remembrance.

The Food and Drug Administration has released detailed information about the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. The material will be evaluated later this week by an independent committee of experts.

The Food and Drug Administration finds "no specific safety concerns" that would stand in the way of authorization of the vaccine for emergency use. Effectiveness is 95% after two doses.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a modified stay-at-home order, requiring people in the state to stay home and businesses to close from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day, in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Additionally, all on-site alcohol sales have been ordered to stop at 9 p.m.

A Tuesday hearing on a lawsuit challenging remote classes in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools was delayed when the judge recused himself because he has three children in CMS.

As dance floors stood empty, a wide spectrum of dance music transformed bedrooms into clubs, kitchens into discotheques and backyards into glow-stick raves.

A new federal rule going into effect in the new year will only allow specially trained and certified dogs to accompany people with disabilities on commercial airline flights.

The grandson of Forrest Fenn, who hid the trove that set off a hunt for buried treasure, confirmed that it was found by a man named Jack Stuef. Stuef says a lawsuit forced him to come forward.

Live music venues are closed. Movie sets have been largely dormant. But animation artists are hard at work.

The Austin duo have been nominated for three Grammys, including Album of the Year.

Lennon's life and legacy have been the subject of much study since his death.

Gov. Charlie Baker is turning back to sweeping measures as cases and deaths rise. Fewer people are allowed at restaurant tables and service is limited to 90 minutes. Indoor performances are banned.

In the U.S., school closures during the pandemic have some worried about a "lost COVID generation" of children. But that's not the case in Germany.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Loretta Christensen, chief medical officer of the Indian Health Service's Navajo Area, about the challenges of fighting the coronavirus on the Navajo Nation.

The United Kingdom embarked on its mass coronavirus vaccination campaign on Monday. The person who received the first dose is 90-year-old Margaret Keenan.