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It's been a week of turmoil at the CDC, and now there's a new person tapped to be acting director of the agency.

President Trump says his first trip to Saudi Arabia in 2017 yielded big business deals. We look back to see how things worked out.

China manufactures about one third of everything made in the world, and its industrial power is still expanding. Economist Dan Wang talks about the implications of its growth.

A $7,500 tax credit is available for the lease or purchase of many electric vehicles — but only if contracts are inked by midnight on Sept. 30. The result: The market for EVs is a little distorted.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Clint Henderson, a reporter and editor at the travel website The Points Guy, about major delays for passport renewals this summer.

A national survey shows U.S. beekeepers lost about half of their colonies in 2022. A beekeeper talks about the important role bees play in our food supply.

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NBA playoffs and the retirement of one of the league's greatest coaches.

Who will win the Super Bowl LV matchup between the Bucs and Chiefs? Julio Ochoa, of WUSF in Tampa, and Steven Kraske, of KCUR in Kansas City, have some pretty strong opinions.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Monique Dixon of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, about the organization's suggestions for improving transparency in police contracts.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with food writer Grace Young, who made a series of YouTube videos Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories, about the state of New York's Chinatown at the moment.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about the economic impact on states who have reversed their reopenings during the pandemic.

Female Marine recruits started basic training for the first time in the 100-year history of boot camp in San Diego. The Corps is under a congressional mandate to end segregated recruit training.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Associated Press reporter Michael Balsamo about the wife of a jailed Mexican drug lord, who was arrested on charges of conspiracy to distribute drugs in the U.S.

COVID-19 cases continue their grim, record-setting rise across the country. States and cities are seeing a surge in hospitalizations. The outbreak is still growing the fastest in the Midwest.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Lynn Falcone, CEO of Cuero Regional Hospital and Cuero Health clinics, about how rural healthcare systems are navigating the water issues plaguing the state of Texas.

Thomas Mallon's new novelization of the infamous political scandal re-imagines the events through the eyes of the perpetrators. Critic Heller McAlpin says Mallon manages to capture both the metastasizing dishonesty and the ludicrousness of this great American tragedy of political ambition run amok.

Susan Choi's new novel, My Education, is a study of relationships and how they end. Reviewer Meg Wolitzer says the book is a triumph for academic novels, portraying youth, love and naivete with exceptional style.

With guidance from his mother and grandmother, chef Alton Brown developed an flair in the kitchen early. In the final installment of our holiday baking series, he offers some last-minute tips. And NPR's Jennifer Ludden gets some kitchen wisdom from her own grandmother, Marion Otte.

A new graphic novel written by Gene Luen Yang re-imagines the Green Turtle, a mysterious superhero created during World War II, as the American-born son of Chinese immigrants.

Iran is facing its most serious challenge since the war with Iraq in the 1980s.

Patrick Flanery's taut new novel, Fallen Land, delves into the housing crisis, creeping corporate surveillance and a "crisis of neighborliness" in American life. The backdrop: a half-built and crumbling subdivision outside of an unnamed American city.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to an independent investigation of allegations by former staffers of sexual harassment, amid mounting criticism of his leadership style and handling of the pandemic.

Moderate Democrats have demanded that the $1,400 stimulus checks be targeted at low and moderate income people. The change, if adopted, means the House will need to vote again on the package next week.

President Biden is enlisting union support for his plan to rebuild infrastructure. Labor leaders say he'll have a difficult balancing act if he wants to be the most labor-friendly president ever.