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A coronavirus vaccine by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is reported to be effective for the majority of people in a clinical trial. It's the third vaccine to hit this milestone.

"There will only ever be one Alex Trebek, but I'm honored to be helping Jeopardy! out with this in January," said Jennings, one of the show's all-time top winners.

The mission will land, take a sample and return to Earth. It's the first such sample-return mission in more than 40 years, and it will tell scientists about the age of the moon and planets.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Valerie Jarrett, ex-co-chair of the 2008 Obama-Biden transition, about what's ahead for the Biden-Harris transition now that the GSA has enabled it to officially begin.

India has reported the second most coronavirus cases in the world, behind the U.S. And its economy shrank 24% last spring. Yet the country's prime minister is as popular as ever.

Health care workers are expected to get a COVID-19 vaccine first. But the speed of vaccine development, and the politicization of the process, has left some doctors and nurses skeptical and reluctant.

The strange tradition of a president pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving happened again despite Trump holding few public events since losing — and not accepting — the 2020 election.

Russia says it "chased off" a U.S. Navy ship in contested territory in the Sea of Japan, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow.

Black voters in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta were crucial to Joe Biden's victory. Those are also the places where President Trump's campaign has targeted its legal efforts.

ISIS fighters tore Kamo Zandinan's 4-year-old daughter Sonya from her arms in 2014. Zandinan, now a refugee in Canada, recently returned to Iraq to meet the 10-year-old girl she believes is Sonya.