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Fires continue to rage in the West Coast. The Senate failed to advance another COVID-19 relief bill. And, Microsoft says the Russian hackers who disrupted the 2016 election are back.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to B.A. Parker, co-host of NPR's podcast Code Switch, about a question shared by many people whose ancestors were enslaved: How can descendants best honor their family's past?

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is hoping to break the logjam that's been holding up pandemic relief in Congress. The clock is ticking for millions of people whose aid will expire later this month.

Earlier this year, Albert Petrocelli died after contracting the coronavirus. StoryCorps revisits a 2005 interview with Albert and his wife remembering a son who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.

With a heat wave hitting the South, people dealing with high temperatures there and in other parts of the world, offer tips on how to stay cool.

The U.S. is heading into its third coronavirus spike since the start of the pandemic, with rural communities in the Midwest bearing the brunt of this latest surge in infections.

With the writers strike underway, the contract between actors and major studios is set to expire at midnight. Negotiations have been going on for weeks — if there's no deal, actors could go on strike.

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected race-conscious admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. What does this mean for colleges and perspective students?

Cell phone data shows that contract workers who work at multiple nursing homes helped transmit the coronavirus between facilities.

NPR's Scott Simon checks in with WFAE reporter Steve Harrison on what voters in North Carolina are talking about as the elections draw near.