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The atmosphere throughout this account is foreboding, darkened by the shadow COVID-19 cast over the country but also by the dangers to democracy the authors perceive and depict.

Artist Livio De Marchi sets wooden vessels out to sea. They are boats, more or less, but shaped like other objects. His latest creation: a giant violin on which a live string quartet played music.

Flames have already scorched a grouping of sequoias that mark the entrance to the groves, where the base of the world's largest tree has been wrapped in protective foil.

Netflix's royal family drama The Crown and Apple TV+'s comedy Ted Lasso scored major wins at the Emmys. Despite honoring a roster of deserving and well-liked shows, the ceremony fell a bit flat.

Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5. She defied the social conventions of her era to embrace music as a profession rather than as a pastime. She has just released her sixth album.

Dozens of world leaders are expected to take part in this year's U.N. General assembly starting Monday in New York. The pandemic is casting a long shadow over the annual gathering.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Kevin Rudd, president and CEO of the Asia Society and a former prime minister of Australia, about the impacts of a U.S. deal to build nuclear submarines for Australia.

Pfizer and BioNTech say that early trial results show their vaccine established a strong antibody response against the coronavirus. FDA review is still needed.

The new book Peril — written by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa — turns out to be just as much about Joe Biden, and how he got to be Trump's successor.

Child care workers from outside the U.S. often buy health coverage through an agency. But those policies can have big gaps, critics warn. ACA plans are comprehensive and, with subsidies, can be cheap.