The National Hockey League has resumed its season in two "bubbles" in Edmonton and Toronto, Canada. The league says it's administered 7,000 coronavirus tests to players, with zero positive cases.

Dr. Paul Offit, who serves on the Food and Drug Administration's vaccine advisory board, says he doesn't think an effective vaccine that's undergone adequate testing can be ready this year.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Adam Segal, a digital and cyberspace policy expert, about the future of Chinese technology companies in the U.S. amid the Trump administration's push to ban TikTok.

Trump's ousting of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine became one of the incidents that led to his impeachment. Trump's new pick for the job faced the Senate on Wednesday for his confirmation hearing.

Around the U.S., cities have been grappling with how single-family zoning can exacerbate racial inequity and climate change. States like California are struggling to fix that.

North Carolina continues to set coronavirus records, and minority communities have been hit particularly hard. More than a third of the state's cases are among Latinx communities.

NPR looks at how the Trump administration's coronavirus response has effectively cut off asylum at the Southwest border — and how the administration aims to make limits on asylum permanent.

India's prime minister laid the cornerstone of a Hindu temple that is being built on the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Hindu extremists — a gesture painful to Muslims, hundreds of whom died there.

The detonation of more than 2,000 tons of explosive material at the Beirut port has damaged as much as half of Lebanon's capital. At least 130 people have been confirmed dead, and 4,000 injured.

Singer Shirley Collins has been called the first lady of English folk music. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with her about her new album, Heart's Ease.