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The number has risen over the last two months due to spread of subvariants of the coronavirus. The state has topped 60,000 new cases every week since the week of May 13-19.

Political observers declared the Tea Party dead in May after it lost every major GOP primary it contested. Sen. Thad Cochran's performance against his Tea Party rival makes that judgment seem rash.

Counting individual votes this election is more important than ever, and this time both parties are scouring the globe to make sure every American citizen who wants to vote can. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

Also: Father of the Sandy Hook killer "searches for answers;" Northern California is rattled by quake, but no significant damage is reported.

Marking 100 years since its founding, China's Communist Party is trying to keep its revolutionary spirit alive. How? Training its cadres at party history boot camp.

In the aftermath Brazil's presidential election, which was won by former factory worker Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the "red star" of the Workers Party has become the star of the fashion circuit. NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the latest trend sweeping the South American nation.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says the number of vehicles winning its two safety awards jumped from 39 to 71 for the 2015 model year.

No party won a majority in Austria's national election but Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, 31, is poised to head the government following upcoming coalition government negotiations.

The Labor Department issued a glowing jobs report Friday. Despite low unemployment and the strongest wage growth in nearly a decade, the economy has not been a top campaign focus for the president.

KEN TUCKER reviews ZZ Top''s new record "Antenna" (RCA).

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Colorado Gov. Bill Owens about the Republican Party's platform. Gov. Owens co-chaired the platform committee, along with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Pennsylvania Rep. Melissa Hart.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., sees room for the party to find common ground. And he says progressive Democrats plan to push for "Medicare for All" and a bold climate change plan.

Boris Johnson has compared Hillary Clinton to a "sadistic nurse" and written poetry about Turkey's president having sex with a goat.

In post-World War I America, young people shocked their elders with jazz music, jittery dancing and public displays of affection.

A food blogger's fascination with retro entertaining pays off in a colorful volume of curious eats.

The charity responds to questions about its overhead costs, such as the $26 million it spent on conventions — including at least one that was held at a luxury resort.

With 1.5 million deaths a year, tuberculosis has passed HIV/AIDS.

Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger are two Democrats vying for governorships in New Jersey and Virginia as Republicans prepare to take over federal control in Congress and the White House.

Lucy Kellaway has pondered the perils of the annual holiday office party in her workplace column for the Financial Times, and shares some thoughts and advice with Renee Montagne.