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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea about his department's response to protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody.

Kathleen Berger loved the diet soda Tab. So when she died from COVID-19, her children got their hands on enough cans to toast her. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her daughter, Sarah Berger Kennie.

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Washington, Iowa and Colorado all have programs to offer free COVID testing to some or all of their residents. So do Boston, Philadelphia and New York.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jim Galloway about his impending retirement after 41 years as the senior political columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The surge in the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus is making it harder for business owners to staff stores and restaurants during the holidays. Omicron is forcing many to close.

David Gura speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Belkin about whether schools across the country are planning to continue in-person or go remote at the end of their holiday breaks.

On Black Friday 1991, AIDS activists protested the department store's decision to not rehire a Santa who had HIV. The man who inspired the protest reconnects with an activist who helped organize it.

In western Kentucky, the city of Mayfield got walloped by Friday night's tornado. Huge swathes of the area were destroyed and an unknown number of people were killed.

NPR's Noel King talks to Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights about the Supreme Court hearing arguments in a Mississippi abortion law case that could threaten to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In a White House remarks, Breyer seemed to acknowledge some of the challenges facing the country, quoting the Gettysburg address and professing hope in the future of American democracy.