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A look at the Biden administration's first 100 days of fighting the pandemic: the successes, ongoing struggles and lessons learned.

Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong tells Scott Simon about four visionary women who were behind early hit TV shows. Her new book is When Women Invented Television.

Dan Pashman, host of the podcast The Sporkful, had a quest: develop and market a brand-new shape of pasta. The result is cascatelli, a short, flat, ruffled pasta three years in the making.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to metal detectorist Jim Bailey about discovering an ancient coin in Rhode Island that may solve the world's oldest cold case.

Do-it-yourself bangs, extensions, and color: stylists and barbers have seen some wild pandemic hair as newly vaccinated Americans emerge for professional grooming.

As the investigation into his death continues, Andrew Brown Jr. will be remembered with a funeral in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Monday. He was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies on April 21.

Single parenting in a pandemic can be crushing as families lose access to work, school and child care.

In 1986, Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first responder in the Soviet Union when a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded.

Apple says it can't make enough MacBooks and iPads to meet demand over the next few months because there aren't enough semiconductor computer chips for all the manufacturers who rely on them.

At the time, many people blamed the decline of the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit on the Japanese.