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California has dropped its statewide mask mandate but a few counties are keeping restrictions, complicating things for those whose lives straddle places that require masks and those that don't.

Hong Kong is struggling to contain a severe outbreak of coronavirus infections.

NPR's Don Gonyea plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and listener Cat Dickey of New Orleans.

Don Gonyea asks Jerald Cooper about midcentury modern design and Black culture.

Valerie Pecresse, the conservative nominee for president of France, is struggling in her bid to unseat President Emmanuel Macron.

Don Gonyea speaks with Vladimir Rouvinski of Universidad Icesi in Colombia about Russia's outreach to Latin American countries during the Ukraine crisis.

For fans of the Iditarod, there's a way to get up close to the sled dog race without ever going outside: fantasy mushing. It's a collaboration between coder David Hunt and musher Danny Seavey.

The resignation of a Levi Strauss & Co. executive this week has prompted big questions about corporations and speech. Where is the line between personal and professional opinions?

Cisco Fernandez, of Phoenix, Ariz., shares what it's been like for him to work as a substitute teacher during the omicron wave for our series "Outbreak Voices."

Scott Simon talks to novelist David Wright Falade about his new book, "Black Cloud Rising," about the leader of an all-Black brigade in the Civil War.