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Farm workers in California are facing the double health threat of working during the coronavirus pandemic and fire season. Wildfire smoke often makes the air quality dangerous for harvesting produce.

NPR's Noel King talks to Leila Molana-Allen, a reporter for TV network France 24, about the recovery effort following last month's deadly massive explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

The annual Pint of Science festival sees scientists and local communities gather in bars, cafes and other places to talk science. But in 2020, the festival will be online due to the pandemic.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Joanna Slater, India bureau chief for The Washington Post, about the nation's confirmed infections exceeding 4.2 million — overtaking Brazil with 4.1 million.

Soumana Saley has a passion for leather crafts — and for education. But the pandemic has presented challenges as he builds his reputation and his school in Niger.

Every birthday, 28-year-old Matthew Robson's dad got him the same present: a bottle of 18-year-old Macallan single malt. With one rule: don't open it. The whisky is now worth about $53,000.

"We're out here and we need to be, but I'm tired and I'm on edge," a left-wing demonstrator said on Sunday evening. "I'm also terrified," she added, noting rising tensions between the opposing groups.

Fires and record temperatures are wreaking havoc in California. The governor has declared a state of emergency. NPR discusses what's the been like in the state this Labor Day weekend.

None of us is perfect, and sometimes the Hubble Space Telescope just flat-out points to the wrong spot in the sky. This has been happening more than ever in the last couple of years.

Owensboro, Ky., has enjoyed the closest thing to a V-shaped recovery of any city in the country. Its jobless rate soared in April but by June was back to pre-pandemic levels.