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The 15-year-old was down a set and two match points, but she defeated Slovenia's Polona Hercog to advance to the tournament's round of 16. She is the youngest woman to advance this far since 1991.

More people in long-term care died of COVID-19 in December than during any other month. The situation only adds to the urgency of getting the vaccine to these communities.

In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life.

"What happened to the innocent occupants is unacceptable and preventable, but that alone is an insufficient basis to affix criminal culpability," the district attorney's office said on Friday.

The U.S. is reporting more than 271,000 new cases each day. Congress' attending physician says lawmakers who sheltered in place last week may have been exposed to the virus.

Protests are growing against renewed coronavirus restrictions in Italy, which is seeing a surge in cases. Spain has declared a national state of emergency, and the government is enforcing a curfew.

The culprit is air pollution — a problem around the globe, from homes where people cook using coal and wood to the smoky streets of San Francisco when wildfires were raging.

Commercial real estate is sitting empty in much of the country. That's bad news for landlords, and for the rest of the economy.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to 12-year-old Joe Bryant, who has been building intricate models of German soccer stadiums out of Lego blocks without any blueprints.

Canada has responded to U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and maple syrup with $16.6 billion worth of tariffs on U.S. products including beer, toilet paper and whiskey.