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And what that means for the rest of the world. Researchers have found three likely reasons for the drop in the fatality rate.

The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 12,000 on Saturday as New York City reported thousands of new cases over the past week. Cases in that city now make up about a third of all U.S. cases.

Rapid shutdowns to stem the coronavirus have delivered an unprecedented blow to restaurants around the U.S. Many are quickly running out of cash and their workers are losing their jobs.

Consumer prices rose 0.4% in August and 1.3% over the last 12 months. Some economists say that official measure understates inflation, because the pandemic has changed both what and how we buy.

"The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said. "And we believe that we need to make it easier for phone companies to block these robocalls."

In the last six years, more than 3,500 pages of sexual harassment complaints have been filed against the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Increasingly, victims are taking to the courts.

She was found in her dorm at Stanford University last week. Her family says it was suicide. "She saw herself as a warrior, and it was do or die," her sister, Christine Catlin, tells NPR.

The session musician's ubiquitous drums beat a path through rock history. As a member of the Wrecking Crew, Blaine can be heard backing everyone from Frank Sinatra to Neil Diamond and the Beach Boys.

David Greene talks to Nadia Tolich, a journalist with the radio network NewsTalk ZB in Auckland, about the attack that killed 49 people. The prime minister described it as a "terrorist attack."

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with The Undefeated's William C. Rhoden about Toronto Raptors' General Manager Masai Ujiri's unlikely path to the NBA and his charity work in Africa.