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Derek Chauvin faces a charge of second-degree murder in addition to earlier charges, and 3 others face charges of aiding and abetting murder. And there's a private memorial for Floyd in Minneapolis.

Fires are destroying huge swaths of forests and causing mass evacuations throughout Oregon and California. NPR discusses the latest.

Woodson's new novel in verse Before the Ever After follows a 12-year-old boy whose football star father is beginning to show the damaging effects of too many blows to the head.

Senators voted Thursday on a Republican-backed "skinny" pandemic relief package. But with no Democratic support, the measure was doomed to failure.

The flu season is around the corner, and doctors are encouraging people to get flu shots. A mix of COVID-19 and influenza could make for a tricky winter and burden the health care system.

In a suburb of Seattle, plans to convert a hotel into a quarantine site has sparked controversy.

The Mirror & the Light will be the last novel in Mantel's acclaimed trilogy about King Henry VIII's powerful chief minister Thomas Cromwell. "I fold my hands. It's over to you, the reader," she says.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Virginia Tech professor Linsey Marr on the nature of airborne virus transmission and what behaviors we should be wary of this quarantine summer.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Douglas Silliman, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, about what tensions with pro-Iran protesters in Baghdad mean for U.S. interests in Iraq.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Sharon Levy, a pediatrician and an adolescent addiction expert with Boston Children's Hospital, about the FDA's proposed ban on most flavored e-cigarette pods.