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Only about half of Georgia's public schools have mask mandates, and three weeks into the school year outbreaks have prompted quarantines that are upending students' lives.

California is experiencing a severe drought, but residents are having very different experiences. Some areas have cracked down on water use while in others, yard sprinklers flow freely.

Research scientists at Pfizer are growing the latest variants that have already emerged to see how effective they are against the vaccine.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Dr. Roberta DeBiasi of Children's National Hospital on the coronavirus variant delta's impact on children.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Zach Van Meter, a private equity investor who organized the Commercial Task Force to help evacuate people from Afghanistan, and get them resettled in another country.

Josephine Walker and Stephanie McClary won an underwater jack-o-lantern contest in Florida. In Maine, Edwin Pierpont's pumpkin weighed in at over 1,800 pounds at the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest.

Festival-goers saw e-scooters as toys — the law sees them as motor vehicles. Police say about 250 people, who drove the scooters while under the influence, had to give up their driver's licenses.

In the virtual world, cashiers are taught to show greater empathy, mechanics learn to repair planes and retail workers experience how to deal with armed robbery.

Armed with an acoustic guitar and the dance moves of a young Elvis Presley, Tall Juan commanded the audience's attention at the daylong Latin fest.

The White House sent a letter to House Democrats saying their impeachment probe "lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation" setting up a standoff between Congress and the Trump administration.