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Members of Ohio’s congressional delegation are renewing calls for the Defense Department to locate a missile defense site at Camp James A. Garfield, an Ohio National Guard base straddling Portage and Trumbull counties. Earlier this week, both Ohio senators and nearly every House representative signed a letter addressed to Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan urging him to consider the base for the third Continental United States Interceptor Site (CIS).

Even before he saw the 1970 film “Five Easy Pieces,” which help launch Jack Nicholson’s career, Scott Edwards became a fan of the actor when he saw one of the movie’s most famous scenes. “Leading up the Academy Awards on every local and national news story, they showed that diner scene. I saw that probably a hundred times before I saw the movie, so without knowing who this guy was it a made an impression on me.” Edwards said.

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with former Georgia lawmaker Saxby Chambliss about the upcoming Senate elections there.

Thousands of workers across the state have counted each ballot to ensure that President-elect Joe Biden did narrowly defeat President Trump in the Nov. 3 contest in Georgia.

An HIV outreach worker makes the rounds in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, checking that clients are taking their medication and doing what they can to protect themselves against the coronavirus.

The pandemic has made for a bleak outlook for the arts. Enter the 92nd Street Y in New York, which outlasted the Depression, Sept. 11 attacks and is making changes to stay afloat during the pandemic.

The Cleveland Browns enter the bye week at 2-4 and 0-3 at home this season. The latest disappointing loss was to the 5-1 Seattle Seahawks, 32-28. Now,...

As Apple becomes the latest tech giant to pledge assistance for the California housing crisis, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg about solutions for the state.

Protesters have written hundreds of Christmas cards for people jailed during the six-month pro-democracy protests. Dozens of protesters denied bail could remain jailed during the holidays.

Engineer Alex Minot emigrated from his native France to Cleveland in mid-February for a new job. At the time, he and his wife Wendy Lovinger were aware of the coronavirus, but they weren't much concerned about it affecting their lives. "Mostly I was just afraid that airport security would be a lot longer, that clearing immigration might take longer, that I'd miss my connecting flights," he said.