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Some people are afraid to use potentially germ-filled public restrooms as stay-at-home restrictions begin lifting. That's boosting sales of products that offer creative alternatives.

While President Trump spoke in Shanksville, Pa., Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden bumped elbows with Vice President Pence in New York. Biden is traveling to Shanksville later in the day.

If confirmed, the 48-year-old judge will solidify the court's conservative majority. Barrett said her judicial philosophy reflects that of her mentor, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.

The new term, which begins Monday, will see eight justices, not the usual nine. And because of COVID-19, once again the justices will gather by telephone hookup to hear the arguments.

We profiled women who were on the front lines of social change this year — from a doctor fighting Ebola in Congo amid gunfire to two forthright beauty queens.

"These people are not under federal quarantine orders," Dr. Chris Braden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

In Taiwan, only seven people died of COVID-19. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister about how Taiwan has been managing the pandemic.

The people who have died of COVID-19 have left empty spaces not only in their families. NPR discusses how one death from COVID-19 can become a loss to an entire community.

Myanmar's economy is already suffering due to COVID-19. Analysts say an imposition of broad economic sanctions in response to the coup could harm the country and result in greater Chinese influence.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with professor Jules Boykoff of Pacific University, author of four books on the Olympics, about issues associated with being an host city for the games.