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NPR's Steve Inskeep checks back in with Dr. Joseph Varon of Houston Memorial Medical Center as the COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed across the U.S., and deaths have passed 300,000.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to B.A. Parker, co-host of NPR's podcast Code Switch, about a question shared by many people whose ancestors were enslaved: How can descendants best honor their family's past?

President Trump said he was averting panic by downplaying the threat of the coronavirus — a shift from his more common tactic of alarming people about immigration, hurricanes and other issues.

Fires continue to rage in the West Coast. The Senate failed to advance another COVID-19 relief bill. And, Microsoft says the Russian hackers who disrupted the 2016 election are back.

With the writers strike underway, the contract between actors and major studios is set to expire at midnight. Negotiations have been going on for weeks — if there's no deal, actors could go on strike.

The attorney general told The Associated Press on Tuesday neither Justice Department attorneys nor the FBI have substantiated any of the various claims about so-called fraud.

With the help of his mom, Dana Boone created the Periodic Table of Black History. Rather than elements, this table contains 90 Black history-makers, activists and innovators.

Intelligence officials and lawmakers describe the Chinese-owned social media app as a national security threat. But they haven't shared that evidence with the public.

Biden meets with European leaders in Brussels. Most pandemic restrictions in California are lifted Tuesday. A father and son from El Salvador describe being separated because of Trump border policies.

The Twitter account @FacesofCOVID has been a way to honor some of the nearly 600,000 Americans who have died. Alex Goldstein, who runs it, has posted over 5,000 virtual obituaries.