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A quick pivot to outdoor dining helped many restaurants survive pandemic restrictions. Now some have added temporary shelters to accommodate winter weather. The safest don't have walls, experts say.

The San Antonio Spurs head coach was ejected for a violation, and his assistant Becky Hammon took over. The Spurs lost to the Lakers, but she acknowledged that her stint was still "a big deal."

South Korean officials in Seoul want to lift people's spirits. They're sending flower bouquets to 500 lucky households. They're also providing counseling and postcards with stay-at-home tips.

Medical staff are liaisons to the sick and dying for relatives not allowed at bedsides. The emotional toil at one Montana hospital is a case study of what caregivers are grappling with across the U.S.

With many more people voting by mail this fall, election officials feared that millions of ballots would be rejected in the general election. Instead, rejection rates went down across the country.

Leaders of the nation's federal vaccine effort, called Operation Warp Speed, said the U.S. has deployed around 14 million vaccine doses as of Wednesday with just 2.1 million Americans vaccinated.

At 11:00 this morning we'll bring you the annual New Year's Day concert presented by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Riccardo Muti. Tune in on 91.1…

The coronavirus, the rescue of an abused elephant, harassment of Black diplomats and the hunt for Nazi-looted instruments are some of the subjects of the year's most popular NPR international stories.

In a year overshadowed by COVID-19, the world saw plenty of other significant developments. Here are some glimpses of the protests, conflicts — and efforts at peace — that helped define 2020.

The volcano on Hawaii's Big Island began erupting more than a week ago and lava continues to flow, creating a huge new lake that's taken the place of a water lake it vaporized.