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President-elect Joe Biden nominated California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be the next secretary of health and human services. Becerra has led legal fights defending the Affordable Care Act.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with server Maria Buenrostro about the toll the pandemic has taken on her industry as Los Angeles makes an $800 stipend available to 4,000 food service workers.

Longtime CIA psychiatrist Jerrold Post has died of COVID-19 at 86. Post analyzed foreign leaders for U.S. intelligence agencies and the White House. He later controversially profiled President Trump.

After covering the end of the ISIS caliphate on NPR for four years, NPR correspondent Jane Arraf revisits some of the most memorable stories she's shared with listeners.

NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, about how COVID-19 vaccines may be distributed, and concern over those who say they won't get the vaccine.

The FDA will consider Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday. Officials could grant approval for its emergency use immediately, and the first doses could be given later this month.

In the futuristic, dystopian film Reign of Fire, dragons that sleep below the surface of the Earth are awakened, and they fly up and destroy major cities. The movie is set in the far-off year of 2020.

In a new book, Chris Stedman asks what it means to be real in a time when humans are interacting in digital spaces more than ever.

NPR's David Greene speaks with Republican strategist Alex Conant about what the GOP needs to do to maintain control of the U.S. Senate, and counter Trump's false claims of widespread voter fraud.

Milwaukee will become home to the world's tallest tower made of wood. Advocates say the technology, called mass timber, could create more sustainable housing for an increasingly urbanized world.

The Australian government says it will spend over a million dollars to count koalas using some high-tech methods. The conservation effort will incorporate heat-seeking drones and acoustic surveys.

The Florida Department of Health said 11,015 people statewide tested positive for the coronavirus since Sunday's report, including 2,342 people in the greater Tampa Bay region.

Lilli Rayne's dog-walking business was taking off and she was finally preparing to buy a house. Then the pandemic struck. She's among the millions of Americans struggling to stay afloat right now.

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on airlines has been well-documented. The fallout for bus service has been less visible but equally severe.

The United States is set to break a record in 2020 for money spent on disasters, and climate change is exacerbating these costly natural events.

The holidays will be unconventional, and Jack Bishop of America's Test Kitchen offers two dishes that follow that theme: a decadent seafood linguine and hazelnut–browned butter sugar cookies.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, many Americans will be separated from family for the first time this holiday season. That's nothing new for undocumented immigrants. They offer some advice.

A federal advisory committee voted to put adults 75 and over and frontline essential workers next in line for COVID-19 vaccines.

Environmental advocates celebrated the creation of a chief resilience officer. Now they have doubts.

Just before the election, President Trump issued an executive order creating a new category of federal employees, which some worry may politicize the civil service.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Claire Wardle, U.S. director of the non-profit First Draft News, about online misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

The historic rise of South Florida sugarcane farming turned the giant Lake Okeechobee into a toilet for polluted waters draining from as far as Central Florida and flushing ruinously via canals to coastal estuaries at Fort Myers and Stuart.

It could be a rainy Christmas Eve, but expect a clear and cold Christmas Day.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine about the state's plans for coronavirus vaccine distribution and the difficulty of contact tracing amid a surge in cases.

The Prom is the latest hit Broadway musical to get a screen adaptation. Starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman and Andrew Rannells, it will be released in cinemas on Friday.