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The U.K. approves a COVID-19 vaccine. Deforestation in the Amazon is at a 12-year high.

A school district in Oklahoma plans to group students together who have been exposed to the coronavirus. That way they can continue in-person schooling. Health advocates are worried about the idea.

NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, about how COVID-19 vaccines may be distributed, and concern over those who say they won't get the vaccine.

Universal Music Publishing Group announced Monday that it had bought the lucrative publishing rights to over 600 Bob Dylan songs. The deal is worth a reported $300 million.

During an appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, astronaut Mark Kelly addressed speculation about starting a second career as a politician. So will he or won't he?

Winslet plays real-life fossil hunter Mary Anning in a film that imagines an affair between Anning and another woman. "It's storytelling that normalizes and expresses same-sex love," Winslet says.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office said a deputy shot and killed 23-year-old Casey Goodson on Friday. Law enforcement recovered a gun. Goodson's attorneys say he was licensed to carry a firearm.

A Charlotte post office in north Charlotte will soon be renamed to honor Charlotte civil rights attorney Julius Chambers.

Longtime CIA psychiatrist Jerrold Post has died of COVID-19 at 86. Post analyzed foreign leaders for U.S. intelligence agencies and the White House. He later controversially profiled President Trump.

The blaze spread from an adjacent building to the Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan early Saturday. The fate of a bell dating back to the founding of the country is unclear.

From NPR's 2020 Book Concierge, we offer four book recommendations for history buffs.

More than half of workers surveyed said they were reluctant to enforce COVID-19 safety measures with customers from whom they would receive tips, according to the One Fair Wage study.

Patrick Skluzacek suffers from PTSD nightmares. His son, Tyler, created a smart watch app to disrupt them, which just got FDA approval. They share their story with NPR's Debbie Elliott.

The outspoken son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a podcast and recently hosted the son of Brazil's president - giving a glance at a new generation of nationalists.

We look at President Elect Joe Biden's plans for fighting the pandemic, and as how the transition between the Trump and Biden administrations is going given that President Trump has yet to concede.

The study by the National Academies of Sciences comes after dozens of U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China complained of migraines, dizziness and memory loss.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Paul Black, CEO of Winston Medical Center in Louisville, Miss., about the challenges the hospital faces with the influx of COVID-19 patients.

NPR's Life Kit provides some advice on gift-giving for this mostly remote holiday season.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Robert Battle, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, about their new all virtual season and how the pandemic has impacted the world of dance.

Medical schools report applications are way up. Admissions experts are citing the pandemic, the economy and a prominent doctor. It's called "the Fauci effect."