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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had asked for an apology; instead, a Chinese government representative excoriated Australia for its troops' alleged brutality in Afghanistan.

The ministry's 29-page advisory is geared to tourism professionals and business travelers now that travel is open between the two countries, but it has been criticized in both Israel and the Gulf.

Despite the pandemic recession, holiday sales are expected to set a new record, topping $755 billion.

Experts suggest being extra careful over the next week or two if you gathered with others outside your pod. That means masks, getting tested, and assuming you might be infected with the coronavirus.

The Carolina Panthers lose another close game, the Charlotte Hornets acquire forward Gordon Hayward and a former North Carolina football star got a chance to quarterback on Sunday for the Denver Broncos.

After a group of hospitals in Michigan implemented opioid prescribing guidelines, surgeons there reduced the number of pills they prescribed by around a third. Nationally numbers are slow to change.

The film aims to depict the experiences of Black London residents.

Drugmaker Moderna says it has applied to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization for its coronavirus vaccine. It says data bolster its case the vaccine is safe and effective.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Abbas Milani, director of Iranian studies at Stanford University, about Friday's assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist and the U.S.-Iran relationship.

President-elect Joe Biden has named more members of his economic team. It's a diverse and experienced group that Biden is counting on to help revive an economy hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

According to documents, Amazon reportedly runs a surveillance program to track activism among its workers. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lauren Gurley of Motherboard magazine, who broke the story.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Zeyn Joukhadar about his new novel, The Thirty Names of Night. It's about a Syrian American transgender man reckoning with the histories of his family and his homeland.

Jamesha Waddell, a senior at Livingstone College in North Carolina, spent nearly two months in the hospital with COVID-19. She died in November at age 23.

North Carolina’s 100 counties are finishing their recount of the state Supreme Court chief justice race Monday. Democratic incumbent Chief Justice Cheri Beasley requested the recount after fewer than 500 votes separated her and Republican Paul Newby.

In this endearing farce, Kristen Stewart plays a woman planning to meet her girlfriend's family and propose marriage. The problem? The girlfriend's never actually come out to her folks.

With high drug prices a hot election issue, drugmakers and the Trump administration are jockeying over how to bring prices down. But critics say the proposed fixes don't have enforcement teeth.

Half of Americans wouldn't get vaccinated if a COVID-19 vaccine came out today.

The U.S. Postal Service plans to issue a stamp designed by Native American Rico Worl. It would become the first stamp designed by a member of the Tlingit tribe.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Harvard Shorenstein Center's Emily Dreyfuss about mass political disinformation, and her project, The Media Manipulation Casebook.

We remember Charley Pride, one of the first African Americans to become popular as a country artist. Pride died yesterday at the age of 86, of complications from COVID-19.