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A summer classic, cancelled due to the pandemic last year is back as the delta variant takes hold. The Iowa State Fair boasts crowds topping 100,000 people but just 62% of Iowa adults are vaccinated.

Students at the University of Hong Kong protested last month, saying university governance is subject to political interference from Beijing.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease doctor and the president's chief medical adviser, about the science and decision-making concerning booster shots.

Hundreds of eateries selling chili-topped hot dogs dot Detroit. The story of how this food became the city's signature dish is deeply entwined with its auto industry and the workers who flocked to it.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with biological anthropologist and chief science advisor for Match, Helen Fisher, about this year's "Singles in America" study.

After nearly two years of living in sweats in the shadow of a pandemic, people — and fashion designers and brands — are ready to step out and catch the light.

Russian forces called in airstrikes on a besieged steel factory in the southern city of Mariupol, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would meet in Kyiv with two top American officials.

Twenty-five years after its first album, the New Jersey band is still selling out Madison Square Garden and putting out chart-topping singles. But these days, its sound is a little more country, and it's recording in Nashville. That may be because pop and rock songs have left behind the working-class, everyday guy, while country music sings straight to him.

Michelle Yeoh stars as a Chinese American immigrant who suddenly develops the power to leap between parallel universes in this moving and often exasperating movie.

Top Chinese and U.S. officials met in Rome to discuss the Ukraine crisis amid reports that Russia has asked Beijing for military and economic assistance.