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Pennsylvania is one of 30 states that has reduced the prison population in recent years. Steve Inskeep talks to John Wetzel, the head of Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with author Stephenie Meyer about the appeal of her Twilight books and her new novel, which reassigns the genders of the original characters.

Michele Norris talks with Imam Hassan Qazwini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of America, about the new mosque in Dearborne, Mich. The mosque, which opens Thursday evening, is the largest in the United States.

Author Hisham Matar's new book, The Return, is an account of his journey to his native Libya in search of his father, a dissident kidnapped off the streets of Cairo years before and imprisoned.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Magdalena Skipper, who the journalNature has chosen as its new editor-in-chief. Skipper is the first woman to hold the post.

NPR checks back with three people who lost their jobs during the pandemic to see how they are managing after federal unemployment assistance lapsed this summer.

Drive-through testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus disease has been underway for more than a week in Dayton. Doctors at the University of Dayton site...

The brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he has experienced COVID-19 symptoms, including "fever, chills and shortness of breath."

Phil Metres was doing laundry in his sister’s basement when the unexpected happened. “The back of my head was clocked by the door of the laundry machine,” he said. “I had got serious concussion symptoms.” The writer and John Carroll University English professor found himself in need of quiet, still rest in a dark place. Then panic set in. “I thought… about all the things that I had taken for granted, how much I love to read and how much calm it brings me, how much refuge I find in it,” he said.

Ohio National Guard members began helping with operations and COVID testing at the new CAS testing site on Monday.