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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins about the ongoing pandemic, delays in the mass vaccination campaign and the impending political transition.

"The claims are baseless, and at this point folks are grasping at straws," said one secretary of state, of the Trump campaign's legal strategy.

It's been five years since Northeast Ohio saxophonist Chris Coles began working on "Nine Lives Project," a 40-minute music and performance piece intended to heighten awareness of ongoing racial injustice in America after the 2015 Charleston church shooting. Now, the project is complete and its four movements have been recorded. Coles says the project is intended to celebrate the achievements and greatness of Black Americans, rather than solely mourning the nine Black lives lost.

Challenged by uncertainty, Ohioans become creative, find hope in new ideas

A New York woman worried that her sore throat might be strep, so she went to the doctor to have it checked out. Then came the bill — with a price tag similar to a small SUV.

Bong Joon-ho's film about families, class and keeping secrets won best picture. It's the first time a film in a language other than English has won the top prize.

Hear the latest from Doja Cat, Tame Impala, a collaboration between Leon Bridges and Khruangbin and more.

Issues of vanity aside, the mask has become an emblem of submission to experts, to officialdom — to Washington. By the same token, the refusal to wear a mask becomes another badge of defiance.

Troubling times can lead you back to wander the hills and valleys of vast videogame worlds you've already beaten — or abandoned.

The Manchester-raised artist was an invariably complicated and controversial figure, said to exert an unhealthy level of control over their collaborators.