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As COVID-19 surges across the country, medical workers are under increasing strain. One of the hardest-hit states is Alabama, where doctors express frustration at a crisis they say was preventable.

Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, began chronicling their life together in the early days of StoryCorps — from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer.

Chuck Close was known for his giant photorealist portraits of friends and colleagues in the art world. Late in life, Close faced accusations of sexual harassment.

The Biden administration has a warning about what could come next in Afghanistan. A political standoff in Texas is over. Doctors in Alabama say they're exhausted by a crisis that was preventable.

A presidential spokesman says media outlets that receive funding from abroad need to be reined in to protect the government from hostile foreign powers.

With the constant stream of data about COVID-19, it can be hard to make sense of all the numbers. We look at the base rate fallacy, and how some people are making this mistake when assessing risk.

The lab has access to a high-security facility that Pfizer needed to prove its COVID-19 vaccine was working. Now the scientists there are testing the vaccine's effectiveness against viral variants.

For some Vietnamese-Americans, the news out of Afghanistan has brought back memories of the fall of Saigon in 1975, when South Vietnam's capital was overrun by Communist forces.

In 1693, Elizabeth Johnson was convicted at the height of the Salem witch trials. Her execution was never carried out, but she was never exonerated. A civics class wants the legislature to clear her.

NPR's A Martinez talks with Rev. Moneka Thompson, a staff chaplain at the UAB Hospital in Birmingham about the COVID-19 surge in her state, where ICU beds are completely full.