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Social distancing is a challenge in tightly packed slum neighborhoods, like this one in Karachi, Pakistan.

Social Distancing Is A Distant Dream In Pakistan's Urban Slums

In a poor neighborhood in Islamabad, houses are right up against each other, families may live 10 or more in a single room and streets are narrow and crowded.

Seniors line up in cars with their families in the main drive of Webster County High School in Dixon, Ky., waiting to pick up their diplomas outside of the school one at a time. Like almost all schools across the U.S., county high school officials had to adapt this year's graduation ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Kentucky County High School Honors Class Of 2020 With A Drive-Through Ceremony

Webster County High School officials couldn't hold the big annual graduation event in the gym this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic — so the idea for a drive-through graduation was born.

A screenshot from a cellphone video appears to show a police officer pressing his knee into a man's neck, in Allentown, Pa.

Police Investigate Incident Where Officer Appeared To Use Knee To Restrain Suspect

Allentown, Pa., police released a video showing police subduing a man. Part of the video shows an officer placing a knee to the man's neck, drawing comparisons to the George Floyd incident.

People hold signs in support of truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos during a rally on the west steps of the Colorado state capitol on Dec. 22 in Denver.

A judge will reconsider a trucker's 110-year sentence following a public outcry

Around 5 million people have signed a petition seeking clemency for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was sentenced for a crash that killed four. A judge set a Jan. 13 hearing to reconsider the sentence.

Suspects Say Alabama Church Fires Began as Prank

Federal agents say three college students claim they set church fires in Alabama last month as a prank, and then set others on fire to throw agents off track. The students have been arrested in a string of nine church fires.

Alphajets of the Patrouille de France fly over the Champs-Elysees avenue during the Bastille Day parade on Thursday in Paris. France is celebrating its national holiday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside allies from Eastern Europe.

The war in Ukraine is playing a special role in France's Bastille Day parade

France is celebrating its national holiday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees avenue alongside Eastern European allies touched most closely by the war in Ukraine.

A longtime pastor at Vision of Abundant Life Church in Sylacauga, Ala., Pastor Michael Jennings recalls the moment the Childersburg Police Department arrived at his neighbor's house and arresting him while watering his out-of-town neighbor's flowers.

Watering flowers while Black: A pastor shares his story of wrongful arrest

A Black pastor in Alabama says he was wrongfully arrested and charged with a crime while he was watering his neighbor's flowers, per their request. He shares his experience with NPR.

Orange County Sheriff John Mina addresses the media about multiple shootings on Wednesday in the Orlando area. A 9-year-old girl and a central Florida television journalist were fatally shot near the scene of another fatal shooting from earlier in the day, authorities said. Mina said that they've detained Keith Melvin Moses, 19, who they believe is responsible for both shootings.

A girl and a TV journalist were fatally shot near the scene of another shooting

Authorities in Florida don't immediately have a motive for any of the shootings. A TV crewmember and the girl's mother were also wounded and in critical condition at the hospital.

Vehicles are seen abandoned in heavy snowfall in downtown Buffalo, New York, on Monday. Emergency crews counted the grim costs of a colossal winter storm that brought Christmas chaos to the U.S., especially in hard-hit western New York.

At least 31 people have died in Buffalo's Erie County due to destructive winter storm

The city in western New York was among the hardest hit by snow and cold. At least 31 people in Erie County were killed because of the storm as of Tuesday evening, according to the health department.

Rare earth minerals deposit found in Sweden

NPR's Juana Summers talks to Planet Money's Paddy Hirsch about a discovery of rare earth minerals in Sweden, which can have implications for the global economy and climate.

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