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With the usual throngs of foreigners absent, Palestinian Muslims and Christians gathered in Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas.

This is the September 2021 archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.

After luring asylum-seekers to the EU as a political stunt, Belarus has now sent people back to the dangerous place they were escaping, rights groups and migrants tell NPR.

In Zimbabwe and other African nations, the virus's resurgence is threatening the survival of millions. The United Nations says about 9 in 10 of the world's extremely poor live in Africa.

We remember some of the luminaries we lost this year: Chick Corea; Milford Graves; Dr. Lonnie Smith; Pat Martino; Dottie Dodgion; Howard Johnson; Slide Hampton; Curtis Fuller; and Ralph Peterson Jr.

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Washington, Iowa and Colorado all have programs to offer free COVID testing to some or all of their residents. So do Boston, Philadelphia and New York.

In a demonstration in front of City Hall, demonstrators called out Mayor Todd Gloria for the city’s continued practice of ticketing unsheltered people.

Your college kid just got home and may be a bit jaded about COVID. But your coming holiday visit could be a real risk to grandparents. Here's how one mom is getting through to her sons about safety.

A famed Haitian soup has been awarded "protected cultural heritage status" by UNESCO. Scott Simon talks to Dominique Dupuy, Haitian ambassador to UNESCO about joumou.

Investors and companies are swooping in to buy mobile home parks. They raise fees and rents, and evict people who can't pay — using billions of dollars' worth of low interest, government-backed loans.