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Asher's dad died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Her grief-stricken mother used strict and innovative methods to raise 4 kids. Asher honors her mom in the memoir Where the Children Take Us.

As COVID cases surge, many Americans are tuning out the pandemic. Public health messages and guidance are running into widespread indifference and disengagement.

Reading about plagues or COVID-19 over the last two years was not an entertaining idea for many. But the pandemic has had an impact on literature — and people may be ready for it to enter the canon.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Joshua Yaffa, Moscow correspondent for the New Yorker, about a major climate change threat confronting Russia.

The effort, which will begin in 2022, will help the city with its disaster response if a heat wave is ranked as more dangerous. Seville's mayor hopes other cities follow suit.

The NASA rover traversed some 21 feet of terrain this week, in its first test drive since landing on the red planet. It also captured photos of its touchdown site and the wheel tracks it left behind.

The nation's top addiction scientist has teamed up with a prominent artist to let people know that substance use disorder is a disease, not a moral failure.

Samantha Power, journalist turned diplomat and now head of USAID, famously wrote about the responsibility to stop genocide. Her mission now is to help shore up Bosnia's fragile multi-ethnic democracy.

Who gets to play for a country's national team at the Winter Olympics is an especially complicated question in China.

David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens win a Nobel Prize for revolutionizing how economics is done.