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The state is processing about 10,000 applications for concealed weapons licenses a week.

Millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are arriving at distribution centers across the country. The initial batch of doses will be limited.

NPR's Michel Martin discusses college admissions and athletic recruitment amid a pandemic with three people who have deep knowledge of the process: Jenny Rickard, Beth Arey and Ellen Zavian.

Students at the University of Georgia move into dorms this week as Georgia continues to record more than 1,000 coronavirus cases a day.

In Milwaukee, Black leaders want the Biden administration to revive the federal government's police accountability efforts nationwide. The racial justice movement has shifted the political landscape.

Lawmakers in Congress are debating a second COVID-19 relief bill, and with that, more funds for the Paycheck Protection Program. In Florida, small businesses have exhausted money from the program and are waiting for more aid.

Army Gen. Gustave Perna told reporters that distribution of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech has begun, with shipment to 636 sites scheduled to begin on Monday.

The COVID-19 vaccine is on its way. What do medical directors and state officials say about their plans? None of them expect to get all the doses they need, so how do they decide who gets it first?

Pfizer may now start shipping the inoculation to hospitals across the country. Health care workers and people in nursing homes and assisted living centers will be given priority for the vaccine.

While working moms have been struggling this year, pandemic life is also taking a toll on dads, many of whom are confronting situations they may not have chosen otherwise.

After Congress failed to aid local election offices, a nonprofit backed by Mark Zuckerberg gave $350 million in crucial funds that helped the presidential election run surprisingly smoothly.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Zeynep Tufekci, contributing writer at The Atlantic, about her opinion piece, which looks at how President Trump is trying to steal the election in order to stay in power.

The idea of selling alcohol as part of to-go orders came about during the coronavirus pandemic. This proposal would put it into law.

The sample collected by the spacecraft Hayabusa2 caps a six-year mission to Ryugu. Researchers hope it will offer clues to "the secrets of the birth of the solar system and the birth of life."

Astronomers compare losing the observatory in Puerto Rico to losing a big brother. It was once the world's largest single-dish radiotelescope.

At his first campaign rally since the election, the president repeated false claims of ballot fraud hours after pressuring the Republican governor to overturn election results.

A proposed task force would look at solar, renewable and sustainable energy, smart grid technology, energy storage, electric vehicles, and storm hardening for the electric system.

The earthquake that struck overnight on Wednesday destroyed large swaths of several towns. Victims are still being pulled from the rubble. Renee Montagne talks to reporter Christopher Livesay.

Rachel Martin talks to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, who signed a letter along with 30 CEOs urging President Trump to stay in the Paris Climate Agreement.

Just days after Colombian voters rejected a peace plan with FARC rebels, Colombia's president is forging ahead with another group. The National Liberation Army, or ELN, is a smaller group than FARC.

Civil rights activists say the process violates the Voting Rights Act. Renee Montagne talks to Vanzetta McPherson, a retired federal magistrate judge, about how the imbalance impacts the community.

A spokesman says 21 of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents two years ago have been released after talks brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss government.

Miami Beach is exploring a way to help residents cover the cost of floodproofing their properties from heavy rains and high tides made even higher by sea level rise — at least a little.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted for the ban in an effort to replenish the oyster population.

Dr. Robert Atmar, a member of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, says he's hearing hesitancy among some front line medical workers about being first in line for a vaccine.