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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Christina Bergin, a hospitalist in Phoenix, Ariz. Dr. Bergin is urging the governor to require masks in schools after her child was exposed to COVID-19.

A summer classic, cancelled due to the pandemic last year is back as the delta variant takes hold. The Iowa State Fair boasts crowds topping 100,000 people but just 62% of Iowa adults are vaccinated.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is announcing that teachers and school employees in the state will be required to be vaccinated or regularly be tested for COVID-19.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly sat down with former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden and his wife, Jeanine, to talk about his life with aphasia, a condition which makes it difficult to communicate.

In Texas, hospitals are running out of ICU beds and staff as they deal with a steep rise in COVID-19 cases. Now some local officials are mutinying against the governor's ban on mask mandates.

NPR's Noel King talks to George Parker of the Financial Times about Britain entering its third lockdown after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the "hardest yet."

A woman in South Windsor had been dating her boyfriend for a few months — he'd won over her family. Just after Christmas, her dad says the guy swiped her keys, drove off and didn't come back.

A preview of two of the albums a member of the NPR Music team is looking forward to hearing in 2021: Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales and Ashnikko's Demidevil.

Michael Farris Smith followed F. Scott Fitzgerald's "breadcrumbs" to write Nick, a prequel to The Great Gatsby. Revising the book, Smith was struck by the parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s.

As the nation falls far short of a goal to get 20 million vaccinated by the new year, we look at where bottlenecks are occurring in various parts of the country.