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We meet the director of Volunteers in Medicine and chat about their mission to provide care to those ineligible for insurance, hang out at a practice for one of the few high school girls ice hockey teams in western Mass with the Longmeadow Lancers, and Mr. Universe gets into another theory about the origins of black holes.

We chat with Carlos Uriona of Double Edge Theater and Larry Spotted-Crow Mann of Oketeau Cultural Center about Little Amal's visit to Ashfield, and celebrate 50 years of the Mattoon St. Arts Festival with organizers Jason Alves, Bob McCarroll, and Freya Bromwich.

We visit Maple Corner Farm for their pick-your-own blueberry season, chat with conductor Keith Lockhart as he celebrates 30 years with the Boston Pops and play pickleball to benefit the Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity.

A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.

The record number headlined the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' annual "Global Trends" report published Wednesday, just a day before World Refugee Day.

The Color Purple is now the second-biggest Christmas Day opening in history — $18 million on day one of its release.

Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has been the biggest album in the country for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that chart of her career.

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com is at the Wimbledon tennis championships and tells NPR's Scott Simon about what he's seen so far.

Over 130 critics voted on the best jazz albums of 2018 — celebrated elders dominated the top of the results, but a class of younger musicians is rising.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with country music icon Reba McEntire about her new NBC sitcom Happy's Place, about a woman who inherits her father's restaurant with a half sister she's never met.