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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Mark Oppenheimer and his six-year-old daughter Anna, a young extrovert who's had to adjust to the quarantine lifestyle.

Nearly 700,000 people in India were tested for the coronavirus as part of a massive contact-tracing study. The results served up some real surprises.

The comedian attends a Ku Klux Klan gathering and a cross-burning on his new series, United Shades of America. He describes the series as a travel show that takes him to places he is afraid to go.

The divide between the two very different GOP leaders is not all that surprising. But it's also a symptom of something that's been brewing since long before Trump.

Florida's clemency board has made it harder for former felons to win back their voting rights.

Peter Lanza opened up to writer Andrew Solomon about Adam's life and how he tried to help him. Solomon says, "[Peter] would've liked to save the world and himself from the horror of what happened."

Most Chicago public schools have less-than-six-hour school days — some of the shortest in the country. And many have no recess. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing to lengthen the day to at least seven hours. But critics say some crucial details are missing — especially, how much a longer school day would cost.

Bob Mondello reflects on the portrayal and the despair of Afghanistan's story, as shown on film for decades — in The Man Who Would Be King, Rambo III, Charlie Wilson's War, Zero Dark Thirty and more.

The race for Joni Ernst's seat could help determine control of the Senate. At a recent campaign event, the GOP lawmaker echoed a debunked conspiracy theory about the pandemic's death toll.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Bilal Sarwary, who's based in the Afghan capital Kabul, about the unstable security situation in Afghanistan as U.S. troops leave the country.