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Months after Avenal State Prison reported that 94% of the men incarcerated in it had contracted COVID-19, advocates are still pushing for California to reduce overcrowding in its prisons as the best way to prevent future outbreaks.

NPR's Don Gonyea talks with Mark Barabak of The Los Angeles Times, Kathleen Gray of The New York Times and Holly Bailey of The Washington Post about covering politics during a year like none other.

Bangladeshis who want to work abroad can pay thousands of dollars for a permit. The reward is a chance for a job that allows them to send cash back home. But there's a potential for abuse as well.

Biologic drugs, often made with the help of living organisms, are especially lucrative because they have scant competition from biosimilars, drugs akin to generics. It's a different story in Europe.

Hail Satan? is a new documentary that follows the rise of the Satanic Temple. NPR's Michel Martin discusses the film with director Penny Lane and the co-founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves.

The 76-year-old former vice president focused on President Trump's response to Charlottesville in his announcement. He enters the presidential race with renewed scrutiny of his decades in public life.

The 26-year-old, who died Sept. 7, will not be remembered as a drug-addled entertainer, but as an ever-evolving maker of music who supported those coming up behind him.

Rents are expected to go down, but home prices may stay high. Low-income earners will be hit the hardest, while those with the deepest pockets are likely to come out of sheltering in place unscathed.

The nation's fifth largest school district has seen a jump in violent incidents since returning from 15 months of virtual-only classes.

The ideals that have shaped what it means to be American are the subject of Neil Baldwin's latest book, The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country From the Puritans to the Cold War.