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Apple was once considered the most innovative company in the tech sector. But by some accounts, it's being shown up by products from Amazon, Microsoft and now Samsung.

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is nearing 200,000, and it's Black and brown communities that have suffered the most. NPR offers a remembrance of some of those lives.

David Esterly's life was changed in the 1970s when he came across wood carvings done by Grinling Gibbons more than 300 years earlier. Esterly became a wood carver, and even re-created one of Gibbons' pieces that was destroyed in a fire.

About a thousand years ago, a crucial page of a musical notation was stolen. It took decades to reconstruct the piece after the missing page was recovered. Call it a medieval miracle.

In a mountain resort in Italy, a deer was stuck among racks of clothes. In western Germany, a deer was trapped in an empty swimming pool. Both animals were freed.

Zachariah Fike finds old military medals for sale in antique stores and on the Internet, tracks down the medals' owners, and returns them. So far, Fike — who earned a Purple Heart when he was wounded in Afghanistan on Sept. 11, 2010 — is 5 for 5.

Gordon Bolar knew he couldn't talk his son Matthew out of joining the military, because "he was a young man who knew what he wanted to do." So, Matthew "served his country, and that was his highest calling," and his father pays tribute to that every day.

Sweet-natured and sharply pointed, The Band's Visit follows the adventures of an Egyptian musical group meant to be on a goodwill tour in Israel. Through a mishap, the band is stranded in a remote desert town.

He'd been separated from his parents. He was living in a refugee camp in Sudan. And then a snake bit him.

The story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the tens of thousands of children refugees from the Sudanese civil war, is the basis for Dave Eggers' new novel, What Is the What. Eggers and Deng talk about their collaboration and the traumas the "Lost Boys" endured.