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The first lady was greeted by dancers, drummers, children waving flags and the first lady of Ghana, getting red-carpet treatment on her first trip overseas without the president.

On Tuesday night, Sotheby's brought in its highest total yet for a single auction: more than $422 million dollars. The record total owed a lot to the sale of two works — a Giacometti sculpture that went for $101 million and Van Gogh's "Still Life with Daisies and Poppies" fetched $61.8 million.

Montana officials are recommending that $22 million in federal stimulus money go toward disability services, COVID-19 screening at schools and programs to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Bernie Speevack of Louisville, Ky., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

The "Giving What We Can" campaign urges members to donate 10 percent of their incomes to effective charities. Over many years, the group's calculators suggest, such giving could improve far more lives than you might imagine.

Barcelona's tourism sector is at a complete standstill this year. The landlords who usually lease apartments to tourists are now renting out to locals, and Airbnb has closed its call center there.

Usually quiet Israeli government agencies and contractors are going public with their battle against COVID-19.

In this week's StoryCorps, a woman remembers growing up in the same apartment building, where her grandmother lived.

Commentator Judy Muller tries out a pedometer and becomes preoccupied with counting her steps.

Attorney General Eric Holder is before the U.S. Sentencing Commission to support changes in sentencing for drug offenses, which could shave time off prison terms and reduce federal prison populations.