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Pandemic's Deadly Toll Behind Bars Spurs Calls For Change In U.S. Jails And Prisons More than 1,500 inmates and prison staff have died from from the coronavirus so far, according to a UCLA study. Read more on NPR

Pfizer CEO Sold Millions In Stock After Coronavirus Vaccine News, Raising Questions Pfizer's CEO sold $5.6 million worth of stock on Monday. The company says the stock sale was made as part of a preset plan. But NPR found irregularities about when the CEO entered into that plan. Read more on NPR

After COVID Diagnosis, Nearly 1 In 5 Are Diagnosed With Mental Disorder Those recovering from COVID-19 were more likely than other groups of patients to be diagnosed with a mental disorder within three months. The longevity of such problems is not yet clear. Read more on NPR

Operation Warp Speed's Logistics Chief Weighs In On Vaccine Progress Gen. Gustave Perna says as soon as the FDA deems a vaccine safe and effective, his team is ready to coordinate deployment of tens of millions of doses as early as next month. Read more on NPR

Trans And Nonbinary Candidates Set Record Wins In Red And Blue States In 2020, transgender candidates continued to win elections. In Kansas, one winner, Stephanie Byers, says voters seemed more concerned with her policy than with her gender identity. Read more on NPR

FACT CHECK: Trump Falsely Claims That Votes Shouldn't Be Counted After Election Day "I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day. Read more on NPR

Powerful Typhoon Goni Slams The Philippines, Leaving At Least 10 Dead And 3 Missing The storm, with maximum wind speeds that made it the most powerful of the year, made landfall on the populous island of Luzon on Sunday and is weakening as it heads toward Vietnam. Read more on NPR

Police In N.C. Arrest, Pepper Spray Protesters During March To Polls Event According to video posted online and witness accounts, police in Graham, N.C., used pepper spray on a march to drive voter turnout. Activists say at least 17 people were arrested. Read more on NPR

Good News: You Can Sleep For One More Hour Tonight Most of the country will "fall back" during Sunday's wee hours. Many sleep researchers say daylight saving time does more harm than good. Read more on NPR

New Zealand Supports The Right To Die, But Rejects The Right To Get High The country voted to allow assisted dying for the terminally ill but no to legalizing marijuana. Two separate referendums were held along with the general election won Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Read more on NPR

Trump's Ban On TikTok Suffers Another Legal Setback A federal judge put the brakes on yet another aspect of Trump's push to ban the app TikTok, but the future of the viral video app in the U.S. remains clouded by uncertainty. Read more on NPR

Advisers To CDC Debate How COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Rolled Out In advance of a COVID-19 vaccine being available, a group of independent medical advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed Friday who should get the vaccine first and how. Read more on NPR

'None Of This Has Been Easy': Melbourne, Australia, Ends Its 111-Day Lockdown The city recorded zero new coronavirus cases on Monday, for the first time since June. "Now is the time to congratulate every single Victorian for staying the course," said the state's top official. Read more on NPR

Dodgers 3rd Baseman Tests Positive For COVID-19 — Then Celebrates With Teammates Justin Turner was pulled from Game 6 of the World Series game when his COVID-19 test came back positive. But when the Dodgers won, he joined in the gaiety — and now faces a "full investigation." Read more on NPR

Orange County Fires: 2 Firefighters Critically Injured In Fast-Moving Blazes Strong wind gusts are battering the region, spreading wildfires across Southern California. Officials said the wounded firefighters suffered second- and third-degree burns in the Silverado Fire. Read more on NPR

Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett To The Supreme Court The 48-year-old judge solidifies the court's conservative majority, filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat just about a week before Election Day. Read more on NPR

Europe Imposes New Restrictions As COVID-19 Cases Soar Amid a second wave of coronavirus infections, many European countries are introducing curfews and lockdowns. Read more on NPR

Universal Mask Wearing Could Save Some 130,000 Lives In The U.S., Study Suggests The study is based on some assumptions under different scenarios. It suggests that if 95% of Americans wore masks in public it could drastically reduce the amount of COVID-19 deaths by February. Read more on NPR

A NASA Probe Is So Full of Asteroid Material That It Now Has A Problem A NASA spacecraft sent out to collect rocks from an asteroid seems to have nabbed a lot of material, but there's now an unexpected problem — a flap isn't closing because some rocks are stuck. Read more on NPR

U.S. Blames Iran For Threatening Election Emails, Says Russia May Interfere Too The director of national intelligence and FBI director said on Wednesday night that U.S. officials believe Iranian influence-mongers are behind an election-intimidation scam. Read more on NPR