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For most of four decades, bandleader Guy Lombardo practically owned New Year's Eve. Commentator Mal Sharpe recalls the era of "Mr. New Year's Eve" -- and a Boston band offers a new New Year's Eve tune to replace "Auld Lang Syne."

Hundreds of bald eagles are descending on Iowa's Red Rock Lake, where a dam makes it easy for the birds to fish.

My 6-year-old has been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 at least four times and never tested positive. Many people fall into that category. Researchers have theories about why they've been able to ward it off.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with infectious disease specialist Dr. Celine Gounder about the evolving guidance around COVID and the tools we have to fight it.

NPR News offers a six-part series exploring changing attitudes about immigration after the Sept. 11 attacks. In this segment, NPR's Phillip Davis reports that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has become one of the nation's biggest jailers.

Athletes and Salt Lake City residents are comforted by the unprecedented security planned for the Winter Olympics, but many remain worried about terrorism. Others are uneasy about the militaristic atmosphere. Howard Berkes reports.

Have Americans' attitudes towards immigrants changed since Sept. 11? NPR's Mara Liasson reports, as NPR's immigration series continues.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is taking advantage of the attention the Olympics is getting to explain its tenets. While trying to dispel some myths, the church is being careful not to proselytize.

NPR's Howard Berkes feels the thrill -- and agony -- of luge as he goes for a nearly 40-miles-per-hour slide at the Olympic track near Salt Lake City. Hear his tale on Morning Edition.

The writings of American poet Langston Hughes reach across generations, cultures and languages. Celebration of what would have been his 100th birthday Friday -- and a granddaughter's discovery of Hughes' work in an elementary school textbook -- inspired this essay for Morning Edition by NPR's Vertamae Grosvenor.