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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Amy Jo Burns about her debut novel, "Shiner," set in the West Virginia mountains.

A group of students from Brooklyn see every day how climate change disproportionately affects their community. They made a podcast that asked: Why?

Lena Porell plays with puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Aevar Palmason, who lives in Iceland, about an app the country is using to track people who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

More than 80% of LGBTQ voters say they are more motivated to vote this year, according to a poll by the LGBTQ organization GLAAD. Many say they feel like their lives depend on this vote.

The bells of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., tolled Monday in remembrance of the four girls who were killed in a bombing at the church 40 years ago. Melanie Peeples reports.

Artist Bobby Pin was the tenth coronavirus death in Hawaii. Born in Cambodia, he grew up in the U.S. after his family fled Pol Pot's violent regime.

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a Laredo Democrat, has represented District 21 for more than three decades. This election, she faces a challenge from Republican Frank Pomeroy, longtime senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs.

In advance of a COVID-19 vaccine being available, a group of independent medical advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed Friday who should get the vaccine first and how.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who will be the first Black American Catholic cardinal, talks about the historic nature of his position, the political issues that inform his work in the church and more.