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NASCAR: Its History Of Racism And Relations With The Confederate Flag

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Daniel Pierce, a NASCAR historian and a University of North Carolina, Asheville professor, about the history of racism and the Confederate flag in stock car racing.

Xi Jinping is in a good position to break norms and continue to lead China

In China, leadership has concluded a four-day meeting that endorsed Xi Jinping's vision for the country and signed off on a reassessment of the party's 100-year history.

Murkowski, Who Voted Against Trump, Is Likely Helped By Alaska's New Primary System

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the only GOP senator to vote to convict ex-President Trump who will face voters in 2022. But her state's new primary system likely means she'll be in less danger.

Competing lawn signs are placed outside of a polling place on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Minneapolis. Voters there are deciding whether to replace the city's police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The election comes more than a year after George Floyd's death launched a movement to defund or abolish police across the country.(AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)

Minneapolis voters reject a measure to replace the city's police department

The failed ballot measure proposed a new Department of Public Safety that would emphasize a public health approach to policing.

A 13-year-old receives his first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination. The FDA may soon authorize the vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11.

Some parents vaccinated against COVID are hesitant to get their children vaccinated

A new study shows that two-thirds of parents aren't ready to get their younger kids vaccinated when they're eligible. Like parents did with older kids, many say they're taking a wait-and-see approach.

Bobby Huber and his sister, Fritzi Huber at a StoryCorps interview in Wilmington, N.C., in September.

For their first Halloween, their parents dressed up as the whole neighborhood

Every day is like Halloween when you're the children of costumed circus performers. Siblings Fritzi and Bobby Huber recount the time that their parents made their first Halloween extraordinary.

These 4 charts explain why the stakes are so high at the U.N. climate summit

How hot will the planet get? What nations negotiate at the international climate summit will help determine that. Here are 4 things to know about what's being decided.

American piano player Chick Corea performs live at the OGR Jazz Club on November 9, 2018 at Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin, Italy.

In memoriam: Jazz Night In America remembers the icons we lost in 2021

We remember some of the luminaries we lost this year: Chick Corea; Milford Graves; Dr. Lonnie Smith; Pat Martino; Dottie Dodgion; Howard Johnson; Slide Hampton; Curtis Fuller; and Ralph Peterson Jr.

Terri Van Keuren (from left), Rick Shoup and Pamela Farrell, children of Col. Harry Shoup, commander of the Continental Air Defense Command, visited StoryCorps in Castle Rock, Colo., to talk about how their dad helped to create the U.S. military's Santa Tracker.

NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport

It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.

Fossilized section of the giant millipede <em>Arthropleura</em>, found in a sandstone boulder in the north of England.

An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England

A group of geologists stumbled on the fossil of the giant creature, known as Arthropleura, during a "social trip" to England's Northumberland region in 2018. It's the largest such fossil ever found.

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