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David Satcher grew up in the segregated south. He went on to serve as the 16th U.S. surgeon general. We talk to him about race, health and the pandemic.

It is the first major jazz club in New York City to shut its doors permanently due to the coronavirus crisis. Its owners announced the club's closing on Wednesday, after more than two decades.

Presidents have awarded clemency in this way before, but it's certainly not the usual course of action. And there are unresolved questions about what might be to come.

Georgia election officials say that they've seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

Vaccination will be voluntary, the Kremlin says, and will begin with health care workers and teachers. Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is still in clinical trials.

The vote follows World Health Organization guidance saying that due to cannabis' therapeutic use and other factors, it "is not consistent with the criteria" for a Schedule IV drug.

With a spike in COVID-19 infections, hospitals in California's San Joaquin Valley are suffering from a staffing shortage. It's made worse because hundreds of health care workers are quarantined.

The film continues writer Linda Kuehl's unfinished investigation into Holiday's life through never-before-heard interviews with jazz luminaries, and explores her experiences with institutional racism.

Tanden would be the first woman of color to lead the Office of Management and Budget. But Republicans are pushing back on her because of the partisan fights she's waged on Twitter and elsewhere.

Some people are keeping up the 12-ft feet tall skeletons. The news website Insider posts photos of skeletons with Christmas lights, presents, ornaments, and Santa hats.