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Parts of Asia that seemed to have COVID-19 under control have witnessed fresh outbreaks. China, Japan and Vietnam, which had few or no cases in the past month or so, are seeing a resurgence.

Extreme heat waves are on the rise, but California regulators didn't plan for what that would do the state's electricity grid.

Author Richard Kreitner tells NPR he didn't write his book as a prescription, but that "if we are talking about the end of democracy in America ... I think we need to have all options on the table."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Eric Weiner, who offers some timeless wisdom for these trying times in his new book,The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers.

CNN correspondent Brian Stelter says the president's "cozy" relationship with Fox News is like nothing he's seen before: "In some ways [Trump] wants to be a television producer more than a president."

Under pressure to meet legal deadlines that Congress hasn't changed despite pandemic-related delays, the Census Bureau announced a new end date after NPR reported that door knocking will be cut short.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan remembers the veteran NYC newsman, who died Aug. 5, as "a tenement kid and high school drop out who never lost connection to where he came from."

Some schools in the South and the Midwest have reopened this week. NPR looks at what being back in school has been like in Georgia and Indiana.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Molly Wizenberg about her new memoir, The Fixed Stars.

Visits to Yellowstone National Park are higher than last year as Americans look to escape their pandemic confines. Their business is welcome relief, despite worries they'll also bring coronavirus.