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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Margaret Harris of the World Health Organization about whether a second peak of COVID-19 infections could occur while the world is still in the first wave of the virus.

For this latest community poem, NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander sifted through more than 1,000 submissions reacting to the killing of Ahmaud Abrery and created a poem that speaks with one voice.

A Florida state commission has issued a draft report into the school shooting in Parkland earlier this year. Its suggested policy changes may be considered by schools across the country.

To owners of bars and nightclubs, pandemic restrictions on the industry can feel punitive. But there are important differences, virus hunters say, between a bar and a restaurant that serves alcohol.

Art Lien, a courtroom artist who normally covers the Supreme Court, has been sketching the Senate proceedings. "I'm looking for color," he says — such as sleeping senators and fidget spinners.

It's been five years since a white supremacist murdered nine African Americans at a church in Charleston, S.C. The racial reckoning it prompted holds lessons for today's outcry over police brutality.

In three North Carolina towns, the cancer rate is higher than what scientists would typically expect. Researchers are trying to figure out why, and so far there aren't any answers.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Al Michaels of NBC Sports about football coach and sportscaster John Madden, who died Tuesday at the age of 85.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds: American views of impeachment are divided and unchanged. Also, ex-Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders lead the Democratic presidential contest.

Fentanyl, Inc. author Ben Westhoff says the opioid, while useful in hospitals, is killing more Americans as a street drug than any other in U.S. history. Here's how it moves from China to your corner.

Widespread bushfires are creating new calls to end the country's dependence on fossil fuels. But fossil fuel extraction is big business for Australia, the world's largest coal exporter.

The box had been buried underneath a statue of Robert E. Lee for 134 years. It was the time capsule that historians had long hoped to find.