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The U.S. has only four percent of the world's population — and yet it accounts for 20 percent of all COVID deaths. New Yorkerwriter Lawrence Wright discusses America's pandemic year.

The COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 is believed to be up to 70% more transmissible than previously identified strains of the virus, though not more severe.

Noah Feldman, professor of law at Harvard University, details the legal questions surrounding sedition, the 25th Amendment and calls for another impeachment of President Trump.

The move is the most severe punishment any social media company has taken in response to Trump, who used online platforms to encourage the violent mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.

Journalists have used many words to describe what happened Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol building — "insurrection," "riot," "coup" and "protest."

Linda talks with David Redden, an executive vice-president of Sotheby's auction house.

CPR reporter Caitlyn Kim, who was on the ground in Washington, D.C., Wednesday as pro-Trump insurrectionists breached the Capitol building, describes the scene.

NPR looks at how different U.S. officials, including President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President Pence, lawmakers and President Trump's staff, reacted to Wednesday's insurrection in Washington, D.C.

The United States is now a few weeks into a massive COVID-19 vaccination campaign. And it has been going slower than health officials had hoped. NPR looks at solutions for speeding it up.

The arts employ nearly five million people in America, but advocates say President Trump's record of support for arts and humanities has been mixed. Will that change under the Biden administration?