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Dr. Paul Offit, who serves on the Food and Drug Administration's vaccine advisory board, says he doesn't think an effective vaccine that's undergone adequate testing can be ready this year.

Turkey held the first organized Muslim prayers Friday in the famed Hagia Sophia after the grand ancient building was converted from a museum into a mosque.

An experimental drug let mice spend a month in the International Space Station's near-zero gravity without losing mass. It could help people spend years in space without major health consequences.

The Illinois Democrat, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told NPR's Weekend Edition he hopes some Republicans decline to fill the Ruth Bader Ginsburg vacancy before the election.

For StoryCorps, Army Maj. Ivan Arreguin remembers being deployed to New York City at a heart-wrenching moment of the coronavirus crisis this past April.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Matt Hackworth of the Baltimore-based humanitarian group Lutheran World Relief about the devastation caused in Nicaragua this month from Hurricanes Iota and Eta.

Longtime CIA psychiatrist Jerrold Post has died of COVID-19 at 86. Post analyzed foreign leaders for U.S. intelligence agencies and the White House. He later controversially profiled President Trump.

Iranians with illnesses are having trouble getting medicines amid U.S. sanctions on the country. The sanctions don't target medicines but seem to be affecting them anyway.

Ethiopia's prime minister launched military operations in the country's northern region. This violent outbreak threatens to tip the country into a civil war. NPR discusses the origins of the conflict.

Relatives of foreign nationals being held in Iran are seeking more attention for what they say is a new hostage crisis. A U.S. resident who was imprisoned in Iran is now telling his story.