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Data show on-time delivery of first-class mail continues to lag, including in many swing states.

The surge is particularly acute in the Midwest and Great Plains. Health experts say the increase is being driven in large part by people who don't exhibit any symptoms.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Randy Tobler, CEO of Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Mo., about the impact the coronavirus surge is having on his facility and staff.

Sometimes you want a really good salad, Garten says. But now is not that time. Her new book, Modern Comfort Food, is packed full of recipes for beef stew, chocolate chip cookies and Boston cream pie.

Actor Sean Connery has died at age 90. He will best be remembered as Hollywood's first James Bond — and as a Scotsman to his core.

A new mobile voting center is cruising through Santa Cruz, Calif., this election season. It's especially important for people who lost their homes in recent wildfires.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rev. Gregory Drumwright, who led a peaceful march today in Graham, N.C., that reportedly ended with law enforcement pepper-spraying participants.

As fall draws in, our literature in translation specialist has rounded up two novels and two story collections that will help you take a brief vacation from this world — and return re-energized.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with early voters in Haymarket, Va., about what's on their minds this election year.

Many in Europe would welcome a victory for Joe Biden – but it would not resolve long-standing issues with Europe over defense expenditure and Europe's economic relationship with China.

Given the staggering volume of mail-in ballots this year, it may be days before we know who won the presidential election and other contests.

Final campaign pushes through swing states: President Barack Obama joins Joe Biden in Michigan, meanwhile President Trump ticks thru some familiar complaints in Pennsylvania.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with nurse Avery Taylor, of Houston Methodist Hospital's Highly Infectious Disease Unit, about preparing for another surge of COVID-19 patients months after the last.

The State Department has long invited international election monitors to the U.S. to see how democracy works. This year, observers are worried as president Trump sows doubts the vote will be fair.

Philadelphia has been dogged by security issues and a shortage of poll workers. But officials say they're ready for their possibly key role in Tuesday's election, and whatever comes after.

A photojournalist chronicles the daily home life of her mother, a health care worker, in the New York City area.

For the past six weeks, 24 students at Ann Arbor Community Learning Center have been doing their virtual classwork on computers provided by the public school district.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and listener Brett Campbell of Portland, Oregon.

Congressional Republicans have distanced themselves from the president. In the final days of the election, some argue that keeping the Senate in GOP control is a needed check on a Biden White House.

The house Lorraine Bracco bought needed a lot of work. "Nobody in their right mind would have bought this," she says. She chronicles the renovation in her HGTV show, My Big Italian Adventure.