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A task force appointed by Asheville City Council and Buncombe County commissioners voted Thursday to recommend the removal of the 65-foot high Vance Monument from downtown Asheville's Pack Square.

It'll be a tough Thanksgiving for many people unable to gather with friends and family. But music can offer some companionship and solace. Conductor Marin Alsop offers some suggestions.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Hala Sabry, an emergency doctor in Seattle, about how to take care of yourself when sick with COVID-19

Protests turned violent this week following the arrest of Ugandan activist and presidential contender Bobi Wine. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Wine about his campaign.

With coronavirus infections at record rates in rural areas, the sickest patients are being sent to big cities for care, and those urban hospitals are getting alarmingly full.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Kenneth Feinberg, a victims' rights attorney who is advocating for a new White House office to help Americans grieving loss from COVID-19 and other tragedies.

President-elect Joe Biden makes plans to address the drastically worsening coronavirus crisis as President Trump focuses on subverting the election results.

Thanksgiving usually means gatherings and celebrating abundance. As the pandemic rules out crowded tables, Americans mourn missed traditions and build new ones.

Mexico's former defense minister is back home after the U.S. dropped drug trafficking charges against him. The move raises questions about whether he'll face justice.

How players from high school all the way to the NBA are navigating coronavirus this season.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with director Kamilah Forbes about her new HBO special, Between the World and Me, which is a visual interpretation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' best-selling book.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to filmmaker RJ Cutler about his new documentary called Belushi, on the life of comedian John Belushi.

North Carolina Democrats were hoping this November they would break the backs of Republicans, who after dominating state politics for much of the past decade saw their power erode in the 2016 and 2018 elections. Instead, state Democrats had little to tout after Election Day.

Some 10% of the population is hard of hearing. The government is helping companies cover costs of making see-through masks. "It's a protection, but it's also a communication tool," says an official.

Cord Jefferson wrote the episode of the HBO superhero series in which the main character goes back in time and to relive the trauma of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. Originally broadcast Aug. 13, 2020.

Alejandro Giammettei says he is showing typical symptoms of high fever and body aches, "resting and isolating myself from all public activity."

Scientists discovered 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia along with those of horses and elephants — hinting the region was once more hospitable to people moving out of Africa.

There are writers on the longlist in five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and young people's literature. Two debut novels are in the running for the fiction prize.

Navalny spent 32 days in Berlin's Charité Hospital, 24 of them in intensive care. Independent lab tests in three countries confirmed he had been poisoned by a Soviet-era nerve agent.

Volunteers getting the shot help determine if a candidate vaccine works. But what with social distancing and masks, scientists must discern if it's the shot or these other measures preventing illness.