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COVID-19 has brought so much loss and hardship, but there was at least one pleasant surprise for Beijing - less hazy skies and air pollution.

NPR is following the ceremony and services commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York City.

Scott Simon talks with Capitol police officer Harry Dunn about some of the revelations coming out of the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

A court has dropped charges against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who was accused of insulting the Turkish republic for writing about the genocide of Armenians in 1915 -- a taboo subject, and one that officially never happened, according to the Turkish government. Madeleine Brand speaks with Hugh Pope, a reporter in Istanbul, about the Pamuk trial and the author's place in Turkish popular culture.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, an opposition member of Ukraine's parliament, about the ongoing Russian invasion seemingly aimed at taking over the the capital of Kyiv.

City life can be harsh on people. For example, it pushes people to work longer and sleep less. A new study suggests that city life can have a somewhat similar effect on birds too. It shows urban blackbirds wake up earlier and go to bed later than their forest dwelling cousins.

A new government started work in Pakistan this month. It faces a country awash with conflict. To get a sense of how serious this is, NPR's Philip Reeves focused on a 48-hour period. He chose this past weekend.

On demand is on demand, as it turns out, whether it's video or audio. Even Tina Fey says so.

Thousands of migrants moved into Austria and Germany over the weekend as the flow into Europe was unabated. Packed trains from Hungary arrived in Vienna.

For her latest collection, Claudia Rankine mined her and her friends' encounters with racism. She says she wanted to talk about "what happens when we fail each other as people."