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In the face of rising COVID-19 cases, Dr. Bob Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, offers reasons to be hopeful about the pandemic's outlook in the months ahead.

Utah's Great Salt Lake has been labeled an "environmental nuclear bomb" and it has the attention of the president of the United States.

Aretha Franklin liked how Kris Bowers played piano at a competition in 2011. It was his big break — a fact that he says was with him while he scored a upcoming biopic about the late Queen of Soul.

From potential long-term rate hikes to repairs of broken pipes, Texans could be paying for years after the state's devastating blackouts.

Oxygen levels, necessary for fish, are up and dangerous phosphorus levels are down in the historically polluted waterway. But a new report points to climate change as a possible wildcard.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Jacqueline Woodson about her new novel Red at the Bone. It looks at race and history in America through the story of two families in Brooklyn.

The move paves the way for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh, the president's nominee to head the central bank.

At 10 years old, Tanitoluwa Adewumi just became one of the youngest chess masters in the United States — and he's not done yet. He says he hopes to become the world's youngest grandmaster.

The female congressional candidate in Georgia is a believer in the conspiracy theory known as QAnon. She is also rooted in a style of confrontational politics that is revolutionizing the gun debate.

Drug distributors have faced embarrassing revelations about their internal practices. One email shared by corporate executives described rural Americans addicted to opioids as "pillbillies."

Ted Lasso, which is always a bunch of love stories, salutes romantic comedy in an episode that brings out a new side of Nathan and a new professional aspiration in Roy.

Welcome 2 America, the first posthumous album from Prince after his death in 2016, was released Friday.