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In 1945, U.S. Army veteran Maceo Snipes returned home to Taylor County, Ga., where he became the first African American to cast a vote in his county's primary. A day after he voted, he was murdered.

Prince Andrew has given up his military's titles and royal sponsorships, and will defend himself as a private citizen in a civil suit in New York accusing him of sex abuse.

Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales asked a group of women to rate the looks of people both masked and mask-less. It wasn't close, the masked people prevailed.

Americans outside the gates of Kabul airport are warned to leave. Eleven days after an earthquake, aid reaches Haiti's rural areas. Israel's new prime minister meets with President Biden Thursday.

Alexis Madrigal, who co-founded a tracker for The Atlantic Magazine, tells NPR's Scott Simon that the federal government's efforts have improved, making outside efforts to collect data less essential.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Don Crisman, 84, who's been in the seats at every Super Bowl since the first one in 1967. Crisman will attend year's game too, despite the pandemic.

Past members of Sigma Pi Phi include W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr. Scott Simon speaks with Boulé member Greg Moore and college student Caleb Randolph about the group's mentoring program.

The Biden administration must do more to identify and track three fast-spreading mutations of the COVID-19 virus, researchers say. Clearer CDC guidelines for masks and reopening would help too.

Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about the how coronavirus may impact the Super Bowl, the game's high-profile quarterbacks, and a big signing by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Washington, D.C., teacher Sam Sokoloff was in the right place at the right time: a Safeway just before a curfew, and just before two shots of coronavirus vaccine would have to be thrown away.