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Surging COVID-19 cases in Rhode Island mean the state might not have enough medical workers to treat all the people hospitalized.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Grey's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff and medical consultant Naser Alazari about how TV is showing American viewers what fighting a pandemic truly looks like.

NPR remembers Rafer Johnson, an Olympic champion in the decathlon, who died this week at age 86.

Amid criticism of the government's recent handling of the pandemic, the country is seeing more cases than at any other time in the past nine months.

Officers discovered 25 men and one woman inside a boarded-up house in the Houston suburbs. Many said they were being held against their will and had been there for up to a week.

The remote island of Bhashan Char was first proposed as an option to move the Rohingya in 2015. The island is potentially unsafe for inhabitants given its cyclone- and flood-prone nature.

"History will not be kind to those who are cognizant of the truth and yet choose silence for political expediency," said a Florida county GOP elections supervisor.

Across the country, they are quitting and the exodus is particularly pronounced in rural Kansas where opposition to mask mandates and other public health edicts remains strong.

Deaths from COVID-19 have jumped nearly 40% this week, and hospitals around the country are straining under their patient load. Here's what happened in the first week after Thanksgiving.

The president continues to cry foul about an election he lost, but he's running out of time and options, as even his own party is beginning to abandon him.