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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shankar Kurra, vice president of medical affairs at Rapid City Hospital in South Dakota, about the staffing shortage at his hospital amid the surge of coronavirus cases.

Germany is heading into a partial lockdown. Berlin already imposed closing hours to its nightlife for the first time in decades as Germany's leader asked youth to think of their grandparents.

Most of the power outages are in Georgia, where 677,842 customers lost electricity. But Louisiana, Alabama and North Carolina each saw more than 400,000 accounts go dark.

Protests continue as Beijing moves closer to a national security law for Hong Kong. And, U.S.-China relations took a hit, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Hong Kong's autonomy is over.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Evan Medeiros, a senior advisor at The Asia Group, about the U.S. saying Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China.

Climate activists left global talks in Madrid disappointed by a lack of progress in agreements on carbon emissions. NPR's Noel King talks to David Waskow of the World Resources Institute.

Americans have launched a surge of DIY projects during the pandemic, transforming their homes and yards — and causing shortages of treated lumber and other supplies.

The United Federation of Teachers, which represents most of New York City's educators, has announced it has reached an agreement over a safe school reopening plan.

Wealthy jet-setters brought some of the first cases of the coronavirus into Mexico. But it's the poor who've suffered disproportionately, and the government's done little to ease their economic pain.

ISIS fell more than a year and a half ago, but tens of thousands of women and children still languish in detention camps in Syria. Kurdish officials said they will start releasing thousands of them.