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When Joan and Izzy Schwartz got married, they spent their wedding night in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Back then, the room cost $16.80. For their 60th anniversary, the Waldorf will give the couple a room for the same rate they paid in 1952.

In the United States there's lots of discussion about when the coronavirus will finally become endemic the way colds are. But African scientists say that may have already happened on their continent.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, about the record opioid overdoses in the country.

NPR investigates allegations that former Los Angeles mayor and current U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti lied under oath to protect a friend and adviser from harassment claims.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his U.K. counterpart are in Kyiv after Russia received shipments of close-range ballistic missile systems from Iran.

Ismail Haniyeh, a top Hamas political leader, is dead after a targeted raid in Iran, according to the group. And, Simone Biles leads Team USA to win all-round gymnastics gold.

President Trump tweeted Thursday that perhaps the November election should be delayed — a suggestion that even his party quickly rejected despite its support of Trump's antipathy to mail-in voting.

Bernie Sanders is an improbable politician. Independent, occasionally irascible, he came from the far left and an urban background to win elections in one of the most rural states in the country.

It was six months ago that a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. That deadly event stunned the nation, led to Donald Trump's second impeachment and spurred a massive federal probe.

The Mines Advisory Group has been removing landmines for more than three decades. This year, it received the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, a prestigious award with a $3 million prize.