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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with CNBC airline reporter Leslie Josephs about holiday flight cancellations after COVID-19 infections cut back staffing. How do travelers recover?

Louisiana has become the first state to include "Black" hair care among its cosmetology board's graduation requirements. As of June, cosmetology students must pass that test to receive a license.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Rev. Michael Battle, director of the Desmond Tutu Center at General Theological Seminary in New York, about Tutu's legacy. The Nobel Peace Prize winner died over the weekend.

More than 1,400 flights canceled worldwide Monday, adding to thousands canceled over the Christmas weekend. And across the country, long lines continued at COVID-19 testing sites.

Homeless service providers in the state say they're struggling to keep people who are experiencing homelessness safe in the snow and below freezing conditions.

At least 18 people are dead and more than 35,000 displaced after heavy rains gave way to flooding in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.

When someone suffers a brain injury and loses the ability to speak, read and communicate, typically after a stroke, that condition is known as aphasia.

Two environmental justice communities in Massachusetts are preparing for the worst and planning for a more resilient energy future.

Moderate Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's announcement that he won’t seek re-election energized Massachusetts’ Republican Party, which is increasingly dominated by pro-Trump conservatives.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Prize for his long struggle to free South Africa from the racist policies of its apartheid-era government, has died in Cape Town.