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NPR's Life Kit provides some advice on gift-giving for this mostly remote holiday season.

Medical schools report applications are way up. Admissions experts are citing the pandemic, the economy and a prominent doctor. It's called "the Fauci effect."

A federal appeals court has approved the Trump administration’s use of $3.6 billion in military funds for border wall construction along the Southern border. The Friday ruling reverses a lower court’s decision, but other legal challenges over border wall funding continue ahead of the transition to the Biden administration.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Stephen Chu, former secretary of Energy and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, about how approaching peak fossil fuel demand will impact Biden's climate policies.

President-elect Biden promises a diverse Cabinet. Coronavirus cases continue to soar as Rudy Giuliani is the latest Trump official to test positive. Plus, California issues new stay-at-home orders.

When president-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office, he will have just 16 days to save the last arms control treaty that limits U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks to Guardian Health editor Sarah Boseley about the U.K.'s vaccine rollout.

In a mostly-white suburb north of Chicago, George Floyd's killing has opened up some hard conversations. And the pastor of an historic Black church there is leading the way by telling his story.

A trip through the Mobile-Tensaw Delta offers a little bit of everything, from iris fields and gators, to Civil War history and the wreck of the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America.

The outspoken son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a podcast and recently hosted the son of Brazil's president - giving a glance at a new generation of nationalists.