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If Congress doesn't act, costs will rise on premiums for health care plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Here's what to know about the politics and real-world impact of this issue.

Getting a big holiday meal on the table can be stressful for the cook (see “The Bear,” Season two, Episode six.) But for guests, just getting to the table also can be difficult, and there’s no Butterball hotline for harried travelers.The number of people traveling 50 miles (80 kilometers) or more from home for Thanksgiving is expected to reach 55.4 million this week, a slight increase over last year, according to AAA projections.

A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.

Cyclospora, the parasite that has sickened thousands this summer in the U.S., requires time in the human digestive tract to reproduce.

The site compares undocumented immigrants to extraterrestrials, refers to people as "it," and says "they do not belong here."

In the Barbershop, Goldie Taylor of The Daily Beast, Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post and NPR's Eric Deggans discuss the latest in entertainment news, including the charges against Bill Cosby.

A movement sparked by medical students is pushing to eliminate the use of race to estimate kidney function, saying it reinforces racist thinking. Some argue the change could cause unintended harm.

John Bolton urges Republicans to accept a Biden presidency. Biden could see a boom in the economy with the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine. And, poorer countries might not receive a vaccine until 2023.

In this week's Call-In, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with health reporters about the impact the current Senate health care bill will have — and answer callers' specific questions.

The studies offer the strongest evidence to date of a link between the animals at the seafood market and the spread of SARS-CoV-2. A top virus sleuth gives the details.