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Coronavirus cases continue to rise, but the U.S. inches closer to a vaccine. Biden taps Anthony Fauci and Brian Deese for key adviser roles. And Trump visits Georgia ahead of its runoff elections.

The coronavirus pandemic is still raging on, with dramatic effects on the economy. Despite that, new startups are booming.

Asian American voter turnout was up 91% on Election Day 2020 compared to 2016. Aisha Yaqoob Mahmood with Asian Americans Advancing Justice's Atlanta chapter describes how activists made that happen.

Riz Ahmed gives a quiet, intense and profoundly unsentimental performance as a rock drummer who suddenly loses his hearing and stubbornly refuses to accept it.

Since 2004, brother and sister Luz and Jorge Muñoz have fed day laborers in Queens, N.Y. Since he was young, Jorge has looked for ways of putting food in the hands of those who needed it.

Officers discovered 25 men and one woman inside a boarded-up house in the Houston suburbs. Many said they were being held against their will and had been there for up to a week.

"History will not be kind to those who are cognizant of the truth and yet choose silence for political expediency," said one Republican election official.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. James Porter, president of Deaconess Health System, about how states and hospitals are preparing for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The staff of NPR Music sifts through the best of 2020 to present personal lists of top 10 songs and albums.

A card from 1843 is up for auction. It's famous for being the first commercially printed Christmas card, but also for a scandal. The card depicts people, including children, drinking red wine.

Authorities in Bangladesh have begun relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process.

In the wake of Hurricane Irma, Jacksonville, Fla., faces its worst flooding in more than a century. Officials are warning residents to stay put, and they say high tides could create dangerous conditions all week.

An analysis of statewide case data by the N.C. Watchdog Reporting Network shows the number of pending felony cases increasing and dockets getting older, even as fewer cases are filed.

The White House has released its plan for defending the president in his impeachment trial in the Senate.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is fighting re-establish his spot as the front-runnner as the Democratic presidential primary race tightens.

Thousands of Ethiopian refugees have poured into Sudan to escape the month-long fighting in Ethiopia. Eyder Peralta is at the makeshift camps.

A Chinese probe has blasted off from the surface of the moon, carrying the first moon rock samples collected in over 40 years.

Warner Bros. announces all of its films in 2021 will be released on its streaming service as well as in theaters.

Basho helped invent the playing style known as American primitive, but his music was nearly forgotten after his death. Then a few years ago, a trove of never-before-heard recordings suddenly surfaced.

The remote island of Bhashan Char was first proposed as an option to move the Rohingya in 2015. The island is potentially unsafe for inhabitants given its cyclone- and flood-prone nature.