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Airbnb has reached a big milestone amid a massive slowdown in the travel and tourism sector during the pandemic — its shares more than doubled in their debut on Thursday.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is preparing to vote on whether to recommend Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the United States.

Before 90-year-old Kenneth Felts revealed to his family that he is gay, he built a friendship with another gay man, whose ability to be himself inspired Felts. He opened up "another world," for Felts.

Trump and his allies have launched dozens of unsuccessful lawsuits seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election, which he lost. One of their most targeted states is Georgia.

NPR's David Greene talks to Dean Brookie, the mayor of Durango, about the prospect of a vaccine after a deadly outbreak of COVID-19 in a local nursing home.

In mountains across America, skiers and snowboarders are abandoning ski lifts and heading into the backcountry as resorts limit numbers due to COVID-19. But the backcountry boom comes with dangers.

Paulino Ramos spent more than a decade working demolition jobs in California to support his family in Mexico. The day laborers he worked with fear they, too, may be more vulnerable to the coronavirus.

A French businessman accidentally left a precious Yves Tanguy painting at the airport. The police helped track the painting down to a recycling dumpster.

The Trump administration has carried out its ninth federal execution of the year, putting to death a Texas street-gang member in the slayings of a religious couple from Iowa more than two decades ago.

The democracy activist and publisher is perhaps the most prominent individual to be charged under China's controversial new law, which takes aim at dissent in nominally semi-autonomous Hong Kong.