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Today is Milwaukee Day, also known as 414 Day. The annual festivities started 12 years ago when two friends decided to celebrate the city they love. Now, Mocha Harris is the primary point person and she shares vision for the celebration.

Unionized HarperCollins Publishers employees have been striking for more than 50 days, with raising the base salary among their demands. The battle is testing the limits of worker power in publishing.

It's been around in the U.S. for 3 years. It involves the selling of red noses to fight children's poverty. And it's definitely not a joke.

The country set another record for daily infections. America is the world leader in COVID-19 fatalities. President-elect Joe Biden expressed alarm and urged the Trump administration to take action.

More than two months after a fierce 11-day war between Hamas and Israel, reconstruction on the devastated Gaza Strip is mostly on hold. Negotiations continue over what supplies can be allowed in.

The evacuees are being housed at March Air Reserve Base in California — and the quarantine order comes after one of them tried to leave the base.

We discuss President Trump's first 100 days, a "ridiculous standard" that he's embraced. Also, a rare interview with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. And the Pope arrives in Egypt.

At least two-thirds of U.S. families are struggling to find safe and affordable child care as the pandemic rages on. NPR asked infectious disease experts to help sort the health risks of each option.

"It broke my heart seeing this man that should be enjoying retirement still working at this age," Joel Cervantes Macias wrote of seeing Fidencio Sanchez hunched over his street vendor's cart.

The answer: 129 (give or take). They range from serious (victims of slavery day) to seemingly silly (toilet day). Do the days really make a difference?