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Meg Anderson is an editor on NPR's Investigations team, where she shapes the team's groundbreaking work for radio, digital and social platforms. She served as a producer on the Peabody Award-winning series Lost Mothers, which investigated the high rate of maternal mortality in the United States. She also does her own original reporting for the team, including the series Heat and Health in American Cities, which won multiple awards, and the story of a COVID-19 outbreak in a Black community and the systemic factors at play. She also completed a fellowship as a local reporter for WAMU, the public radio station for Washington, D.C. Before joining the Investigations team, she worked on NPR's politics desk, education desk and on Morning Edition. Her roots are in the Midwest, where she graduated with a Master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Vanessa Romo is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She covers breaking news on a wide range of topics, weighing in daily on everything from immigration and the treatment of migrant children, to a war-crimes trial where a witness claimed he was the actual killer, to an alleged sex cult. She has also covered the occasional cat-clinging-to-the-hood-of-a-car story.

November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) Here's a look at the nature and nurturing of human kindness.

Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand today in a trial over whether social media companies are fueling the teen mental health crisis. And, Tricia McLaughlin is leaving the Department of Homeland Security.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to ex-state Sen. Wendy Davis who is challenging the state's restrictive abortion law. She became well-known nationally after a 13-hour filibuster of a 2013 abortion bill.

As the war moves into Baghdad, anxiety grows among the parents of those on the front lines -- as does their hunger for information. Because legal and other constraints often prevent the parents of U.S. Marines from getting information from the military, they're turning to an unofficial Web site called MarineMoms.us. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

Viewing areas that normally accommodate about 58,000 people will be limited to about 15,000 to allow for more distancing, and everyone in attendance must show proof of vaccination and wear a mask.

Chairman Bennie Thompson's letter to Jordan asks for information and an interview to discuss his conversations with President Donald Trump on Jan. 6.

Mark Meadows is suing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Jan. 6 committee, asking a judge to block enforcement of two subpoenas it had issued for himself and Verizon.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks to a South Florida real estate broker about buying and selling houses in a market buffeted by increasing bouts of severe weather.