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NPR's Scott Simon remembers historian and travel writer Jan Morris, who died Friday at age 94.

Several lawmakers were visibly upset Tuesday by the new security system at the Capitol complex that requires them to walk through metal detectors, following last week's deadly insurrection.

Patches, a calico cat thought to have died with her owner in the mudslides that swept through Santa Barbara County in 2018, has been found and reunited with her late owner's partner.

Besides patients and their families, no one is feeling the pain of the COVID-19 catastrophe more than health care workers. The onslaught has exhausted them, but many also use the word 'betrayed' to describe their feelings toward the public, and they have grown angry at people for skirting safety rule because they know much of the suffering is avoidable.

By suing its own school board and school district, San Francisco has transformed an argument over how to bring students back into classrooms into a legal battle. Now, stakeholders are citing differing sets of statistics and experiences, with the issue of equity emerging as a fault line.

The city's Civil Service Commission denied the appeals of three officers who were connected to photos that imitated chokeholds where the Black man's violent arrest led to his death.

The blaze spread from an adjacent building to the Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan early Saturday. The fate of a bell dating back to the founding of the country is unclear.

More than 400,000 federal workers deemed essential will have to work without pay come midnight ... unless lawmakers can settle on a way to keep the government funded.

Former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived an assassination attempt last year, which U.K. authorities blamed on Russia. Russian officials want to know where the two are now.

The promoters of a 50th anniversary Woodstock festival can still attempt to put on their event in August, though they face a steep uphill battle for financing and permits.