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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Erik Frederick, Chief Administrative Officer of Mercy Hospital Springfield, about the surge of COVID-19 patients in southwest Missouri, one of the worst U.S. hot spots.

Millions of immigrants apply for a shot at a green card through the diversity visa lottery, sometimes applying year after year. But this year, most winners are out of luck.

A rise in drug overdose deaths is putting doctors and dentists back under scrutiny for ignoring federal safety guidelines. Simple solutions could include prescribing weaker opioids or fewer pills.

British popstar Ellie Goulding talks about her new album "Brightest Blue" and about finding confidence and inner peace after years in the spotlight and a five-year hiatus.

Lewis began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to serve in Congress for more than three decades.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Congresswoman and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala about the federal and state response to COVID 19. Shalala's district is in south Florida.

Consumer spending is rebounding, yet Americans continue to file for unemployment week after week, something Congress has to consider as it moves to shore up the pandemic U.S. economy.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Miles Harvey about his book The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch.

99 years ago in Tulsa, Okla., white mobs slaughtered several hundred Black citizens in one of the worst racial massacres in US history. Historians have long tried to locate were victims are buried.

Federal law enforcement officers and protestors clashed again overnight in Portland, Oregon. The city's mayor says they are endangering demonstrators.