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More than 20 years after first allowing women to serve as priests, the church voted to ordain women as bishops. A similar proposal had been narrowly defeated in 2012.

"As a society, we should do everything we can to provide relief to those who are suffering for the public good," the head of the Federal Reserve will tell a Senate committee.

Elisa Hinojosa died of COVID-19 at age 54 on Oct. 25. NPR remembers a wife, mother of three and grandmother of two from San Antonio.

Thursday was the fourth and final day hearings for President Trump's nominee. Next up in the process is the committee vote on Oct. 22.

Poetry critic Tess Taylor reviews House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson.

The change will come at the end of August, when Queen Elizabeth's husband will essentially retire. News of a pending royal announcement had set off a frenzy of speculation about his health.

Reminders of the Hindu faith are everywhere in Vrindavan — countless temples line the streets and pilgrims march in devotion. There is also stark, third-world poverty and suffering. But for the faithful, the city is a manifestation of heaven, here on Earth.

Along Peru's coast, archeologists find the ruins of some 20 communities clustered along three rivers. Some date back 5,000 years. People there grew crops and built huge stone monuments that predate the Egyptian pyramids. It's believed to be the oldest complex culture in the Americas. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

The Turkish government is asking that the country be called by its Turkish name, a change which the United Nations has now adopted.

We hear the thoughts and tales — as told by storyteller David Greenberger — of an elderly resident of Erie, Pa., an adventure that began with a free bus pass.