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NPR's Scott Simon talks with reporter Shalu Yadav about the deadly train crash in India Friday night.

In 1970, the murder of a Black man in Oxford, N.C., led ordinary people to take extraordinary action. In a country that still struggles with race, stories like theirs show that the past is not dead.

There were some directives the president attempted to make of his staffers or other government officials that might have breached the obstruction of justice threshold had they not stood up to him.

OCD is often misunderstood. Here’s what it’s like, from people who live with it.

With the FDA poised to OK another booster for people 50 and older, questions remain: Is the evidence strong enough to warrant a fourth shot, does the timing make sense, and will there be much demand?

Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, was unarmed when he was killed by police who shot him dozens of times in Akron, Ohio. A Saturday rally at Lucille Berrien Park will honor Walker and the relatives of people killed by police in the Milwaukee area.

"We had no ICUs at that time. We had no antivirals, had no vaccines for flu. We had no idea that the flu was even a virus at that time," one scholar said. But social distancing helped then too.

Alice Walton's foundation Art Bridges will give grants to dozens of museums around the country.

Science shows the value of boosters against COVID, but many vaccinated people haven't gotten the shot. About 40% of people who are eligible have been boosted, which could be bad if COVID surges again.

As part of an occasional series of conversations with new gun owners, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michelle McGhee, a teacher, and Dirk Waldrop, a firearms trainer, both from Arkansas.