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Maybe you're COVID indifferent. Or a COVID amnesiac. Or a NOVID who wants to keep your no COVID streak going. With cases rising this summer, it's time for a refresher course on how to avoid the virus.

For the second time this year, detainees of the St. Louis Justice Center were able to break out of their cells, break windows and set small fires.

The Tampa Parks and Recreation Department took part in the 15th annual World’s Largest Swimming Lesson at four city pools.

Korean company Smart Radar System designed the new radar technology that can scan for kids, in a bus’s blind spot with the goal of saving kids’ lives.

It's been 75 years since Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. In this week's StoryCorps, we hear from a man who watched him play.

A kindergarten class in Stone Harbor, N.J., recently said bon voyage to a group of 18 orphaned turtles as part of a program to save thousands of the reptiles.

Two skaters from the Russian Olympic Committee took the top two spots at the women's program at the Beijing Olympics. Kamila Valieva, who has been at the center of a scandal, took fourth place.

Thousands of Russian exiles opposed to the war in Ukraine have taken up residence in Armenia, a former Soviet republic which offers Russians passport-free admission.

The acclaimed short-story writer sets his first novel in the cemetery where 11-year-old Willie Lincoln was buried. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Lincoln in the Bardo "searing, inventive and bizarre."

President Trump welcomes his Turkish counterpart to the White House despite a bipartisan congressional push to cut arms sales to Ankara.

In 2015, Reiner collaborated with his son, Nick Reiner, on Being Charlie, a story about addiction, loosely based on Nick's experiences. Rob Reiner talked about the film with Fresh Air in September.

Ernst, who has served in the Senate since 2015, hosted the closed-door luncheon for GOP senators Thursday when the incident occurred.

Lessing's 1962 novel, The Golden Notebook, is considered one of the great works of the 20th Century. It's been called by many the first feminist novel, a distinction Lessing always rejected.

When police came to Norma Nazario's home in 2023 to tell her that her 15-year-old son Zackery had died in a subway surfing accident, she was stunned to find social media videos of him riding atop NYC subway cars.

Among the approved spending items was $15 million to build a facility to house the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation program at USF St. Petersburg.

The 22-year-old American topped a competitive field Thursday in Beijing. Figure skaters from Japan came in second and third.

Catharsis comes heavy and often in the Staten Island band's raucous-yet-refined rock sound, which reflects a new generation's willingness to look back on the '80s and '90s with fresh eyes and ears.

Youth advocates are working hard to defuse the trauma of gun violence in Florida, even as more kids are caught with guns.

Words Unlocked, a poetry contest for juveniles in corrections, has drawn more than 1,000 entries. Its judge, Jimmy Santiago Baca, says it was a poetry book that helped him survive his own prison term.

We visit a job market created by economists, for economists. It's a hyper-efficient, optimized system, tested by game theorists, tweaked by a Nobel Prize winner, but it requires comfortable shoes.

As it winds its way to the South China Sea, the Mekong River runs along Myanmar's remote and often troubled Shan state. The repressive military government in Yangon controls parts of the state, while ethnic militias and warlords rule the others.

Buffalo consistently ranks as one of the most segregated cities in the nation.

Republican presidential contender Rick Perry backed a flat tax plan Tuesday. It's an idea that has been around for some time. But it now appears to be gaining traction within the GOP.

A burial site with about 100 mostly unmarked graves has existed for over a century in a Maryland field — most likely the resting place of Black boys confined in a segregated detention center.

The Securities and Exchange Commission approves new rules to assure that accounting firms maintain independence from companies they audit. The rules stem from legislation Congress passed last summer in the wake of accounting scandals at companies such as Enron and WorldCom. Critics say the new regulations aren't as strict as they should be. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.