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The Biden administration has been criticized for hoarding COVID vaccines when millions of people around the world are unvaccinated. Now they're looking at how to help finance plants overseas.

An NPR poll finds that while a large majority of people using telehealth during the pandemic were satisfied, nearly two-thirds prefer in-person visits. That may foretell telehealth's future.

Host Steve Inskeep talks with NPR National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson about Senate races around the country. (9:29)

"Eighty-two years after women got the right to vote," observes essayist Diane Roberts, "it's not remarkable to see women asking for votes." But, she says, we often respond as though it is unusual, and that limits our perspective on women as political candidates.

Efforts by the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood to secede from Los Angeles lose steam, thanks in part to Mayor James Hahn's $5 million anti-secession campaign. Voters will decide the matter in Tuesday's election.

Jackson Braider of member station WGBH in Boston examines the use of music in political campaigns past and present.

Essayist Andy Borowitz waxes nostalgic over the re-emergence of former Vice President Walter Mondale in this year's election. Mondale is running for the Senate seat in Minnesota, following the death of Paul Wellstone.

NPR's Athena Desai reports on up-and-comers OK Go, who are charging out of the Chicago scene and touring the country with their unique brand of power pop-rock. Radio host Ira Glass says the group is "like a boy band that got seduced by Queen and wound up in college instead of Orlando." They recall the melodic greats of the '70s and '80s, and provoke thoughts about the state of rock and roll today.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Charlotte Graham from Spring Hill, Fla. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WUSF at the University of South Florida in Tampa.)

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr comments on how relations between the U.S. and Germany remain strained, long after the September German election when two aides of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder made hash remarks about President Bush.