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Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, has been one of the folks on the front lines over the last 10 months caring for COVID-19 patients, putting herself at risk.

The franchise is the second major sports team to abandon a longtime name widely seen as racist or culturally offensive. The NFL's Washington Football Team was the first to do so.

On the day electors around the country voted to reaffirm his victory, President-elect Joe Biden also called for unity and healing.

Canada joins the United Kingdom and the United States as the first Western countries to provide the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, as the coronavirus pandemic rages toward winter.

"Conducting the championship in one geographic region allows for more planning and execution of safeguards," an NCAA official said on Monday. The NCAA hopes all 64 teams will play in San Antonio.

For those who can't adopt a furry friend for a pet — perhaps due to space, allergies or schedules — might we recommend an alternative: Snails. No, really. Hear us out.

With the daily number of new infections hovering around 20,000, Chancellor Angela Merkel told Germans this week that her government may move to extend restrictions into the new year.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf of Period Equity about where the U.S. stands on providing free menstruation products nationally and how the pandemic has affected access to them.

More than 91,000 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus on Saturday — over 6,000 of them on ventilators. With the holiday season fast approaching, health experts fear the worst is yet to come.

The IRS now says its own error caused thousands of non-Americans living overseas to mistakenly receive $1,200 stimulus checks — and the mistake could happen again if more stimulus money goes out.