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16-year-old Vera Rivard trained for two years for the 14 hour journey from Britain to France.

NPR's Steve Inskeep interviews Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who ran for president of Belarus against long-time incumbent Alexander Lukashenko. She says the election was fraudulent.

In Owensboro, Kentucky, the the unemployment rate this summer was actually lower than it was before the pandemic.

The mayor of Rochester, N.Y., has ordered the immediate suspension of seven police officers over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after being restrained during his arrest in March.

Wesley Fire Cloud Jr. worked to protect his Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota from the coronavirus. He died of COVID-19 in July at age 38.

In our regular segment, "New Normal," Nautica Nolden talks about her experience quarantining in her dorm room at New York University for two weeks.

In our regular segment "New Normal," we hear from Trish Campa, a public school cafeteria worker from rural Nebraska.

TikTok is known as an app where kids show off dance moves. We meet a woman from Nebraska who has become an improbable star, the "Mom of TikTok."

Chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura uses the video-streaming site Twitch to teach others the game. During quarantine he's amassed over 350,000 followers, and renewed interest in the century-old game.

NPR's Noel King talks to Leila Molana-Allen, a reporter for TV network France 24, about the recovery effort following last month's deadly massive explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut.