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After years of #OscarsSoWhite and #OscarsSoMale, industry observers are crowing over the 2021 nominations. This expanded diversity comes along with increased social consciousness in the year's films.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Chris Myers Asch about the political fight over Washington, D.C., statehood and its connection to the city's racial demographics and history.

The heating, cooling and lighting in buildings account for nearly a third of U.S. greenhouse emissions. NPR's Life Kit has tips for how to shrink the carbon footprint of your house or apartment.

India's health system is collapsing under a record surge of coronavirus cases. Hospitals are overloaded and experiencing widespread dearth of life-saving equipment and medicines.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II says his office wants the footage related to the killing of the 42-year-old Black man to be made public. The local NAACP is demanding Wooten's resignation.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with political analyst Andrea Moncada in Lima about the presidential runoff in Peru, and what it could mean for the future of democracy in South America.

For decades, the U.S. has not referred to the 1915 killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman forces as an act of genocide. Armenian Americans react to President Biden's use of the term.

Rick Spinrad previously served as the agency's top scientist. His nomination comes at a difficult period for NOAA, which spent the Trump administration mired in scandal and without a permanent leader.

A massive fire at a hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients also left more than 100 people injured. Amid calls for action by international organizations, the prime minister ordered an investigation.

The country's navy had said earlier that it considered the crew of 53 dead, an assessment that has now been confirmed with photos of the ship's wreckage.

As India breaks daily global records for coronavirus infections, the U.S. has agreed to send key medical equipment and raw materials to help.

Poet Natalie Diaz — author of Postcolonial Love Poem, which was a finalist for the National Book Award — tells NPR's Michel Martin about some of the listener-submitted poems that caught her eye.