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In Wisconsin, as coronavirus cases are surging and hospitalizations are increasing, more people are dying of COVID-19.State officials say it’s a crisis,…

On Monday, the U.S. and Israel celebrate the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem. The move is a blow to Palestinians, who seek part of the city as their capital.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Isabella Gomez Sarmiento and Anastasia Tsioulcas tell us what it was like to cover a major celebrity criminal trial, for this week's Reporter's Notebook. Covering the spectacle and complexity of the Sean Combs trial required both modern and old-school reporting techniques.

"We run the risk of going from hysteria to a sense of indifference," says the now-recovered physician. "And I think that is even more dangerous than our fear."

Managers have long assumed employees will work harder for fiscal rewards. In Drive, Daniel Pink argues that people will do more if they are given the opportunity to work on their own time, to be creative, and to do good.

It has been days since Hurricane Florence struck the Carolinas. But in some parts of the state, the worst may be yet to come. The Cape Fear River, which borders Fayetteville, could crest to 62 feet.

Noah talks with people who are holding summer jobs that end on or around Labor Day. Boston Berry is a pool lifeguard at the Lee Cultural Center in West Philadelphia, where he's been a guard for twenty-five summers. After the pool closes today, he'll resume his winter job, teaching high school. Patrick Houlihan and Susan Edelman are park rangers in the Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Today marks the unofficial end of the camping season; during the summers, they conduct dogsled demonstrations, hikes, and educational seminars. Finally, Laurie Dahlgren is a student at the University of Minnesota who sells fudge, coffee, jams and chocolates at the Knott's Berry General Store in the Camp Snoopy Amusement Park at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Today's her last day of work before she returns to school.

Rather than relying on cell towers, phone lines, or fiber optics, Google plans to beam 3G-speed Internet to the world's most inaccessible corners using helium balloons. The experiment is called "Project Loon." Leader Mike Cassidy talks about the project's first step: providing balloon Internet to New Zealand and the 40th parallel south.

Under the country's three-day experiment to control the deadly Ebola virus, people must stay home while health care teams go door-to-door to spread the word on prevention.

The streets of Harare were quiet a day after troops fired on opposition protesters waiting for the results of Zimbabwe's presidential election and convinced the vote was rigged. Six people died.