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Brazil is the world's largest Catholic country. But evangelical Christian churches are popping up everywhere, even in the jungle, and now about one-third of Brazil's population is evangelical.

Extended school closings during the pandemic were a calamity for education. NPR's Anya Kamenetz writes about how COVID changed children's lives in her new book: The Stolen Year.

A look inside two of Pennsylvania's 13 centers taking calls for 988, the new national suicide prevention hotline. Centers across the U.S. need more money and staffers for the increase in calls.

Did President Joe Biden promise too much when he began his term a year ago? And what role did fellow Democrats, and the media, play in the current sense of disappointment?

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have recently been revived in the podcast, "Bugs and Daffy's Thanksgiving Adventure." We mark the occasion by listening to our 1989 interview with Jones, who died in 2022.

Baylor was known for his acrobatic athleticism. NPR's Noel King talks to Bijan Bayne, author of Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball, about Baylor's legacy.

"It was too much," Biles said of enduring years of media coverage of disgraced former team doctor Larry Nassar. "But I was not going to let him take something I've worked for since I was 6 years old."

Health care workers in state agencies are claiming medical or religious exemptions to vaccine mandates at a higher rate than health care workers outside government.

The first payments have gone out to parents. Tens of millions of families will receive up to $300 per child. The tax credit is part of the stimulus package that Democrats passed in March.

When the pandemic hit, states began leasing hotel rooms for unhoused residents. California went a step further and bought some of those hotels, opening nearly 6,000 new units for the homeless.