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The U.S. Forest Service this week closed Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area along the Canadian border because of fires. It's the first time in nearly half a century they've had to close the area.

While promoting her new movie God's Country, Newton talked about wanting to "apologize every day to darker-skinned actresses" for being chosen for roles.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mary Ellen McGroarty, director at the World Food Programme in Afghanistan, about the challenges of providing assistance for vulnerable groups in Afghans.

An NPR analysis of finds that U.S. distribution sites are more common in whiter areas, despite the pandemic's disproportionate impact on Blacks and Latinos.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Don Crisman, 84, who's been in the seats at every Super Bowl since the first one in 1967. Crisman will attend year's game too, despite the pandemic.

The Biden administration must do more to identify and track three fast-spreading mutations of the COVID-19 virus, researchers say. Clearer CDC guidelines for masks and reopening would help too.

Washington, D.C., teacher Sam Sokoloff was in the right place at the right time: a Safeway just before a curfew, and just before two shots of coronavirus vaccine would have to be thrown away.

Do you need something to liven up your virtual business meetings? You can hire a goat or two from Cronkshaw Fold Farm in Lancashire, England to make a cameo appearance in your call.

People in Washington, D.C., are relieved that the waiting is over for the Mueller report to be complete. Now they're wondering if they'll get to read it.

In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, a group of men have been holding a hunger strike to protest gun violence in their community.