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Readers are asking: Should we double up on masks for double the protection? Does gargling with mouthwash have an impact on the virus?

While votes are still being counted, Tuesday’s election process was mostly a smooth one, according to Ohio voting rights groups. A few problems were reported to the groups’ voter assistance hotlines – things like delays at polling places, the sometimes poorly executed expansion of curbside voting and scattered incidents of voter intimidation. But mostly the huge statewide turnout and early voting numbers that dwarfed any previous years were seen as a success.

In Oregon Saturday night, a person was shot and killed in downtown Portland as a pro-Trump car caravan wound its way through the city's streets — clashing with counter-protesters along the way.

Updated: 5:25 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020 Cuyahoga County dropped from the red alert level to orange in Ohio’s coronavirus public health advisory system, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Thursday. The county spent seven weeks in the red, or Level 3, with what is considered by the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) to be “very high exposure and spread” risk.

It was Lady Gaga's night, BTS finally got its due, Keke Palmer impressively hosts and the lines between "live performances" and "music videos" were blurred like never before.

NPR checks in on voters in El Paso, Texas, who have much on their minds, including the pandemic, racial injustice and the lingering grief from last year's Walmart shooting.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly interviews Lord Philip Norton of Louth, a professor at University of Hull, about what constitutes a "constitutional crisis" in the U.K., which has no written constitution.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis about what is known about the extent of the destruction from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, and next steps for his country.

This year saw a historic reduction in the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the U.S. Next year will be similar — reshaping the U.S.'s role in the world amid a refugee crisis.

Netflix lets users choose their own adventure with a new installment of the popular show Black Mirror. Steve Inskeep talks to Janko Roettgers of Variety magazine — about how they did it.