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1847 episodes transcribedAfter more than 500,000 deaths and nearly a full year, experts say there are a growing number of reasons to be optimistic about the direction of the p...
Last summer, the city of Austin, Texas, slashed the budget for its police department. More recently, the city council voted on a new way to spend some...
Why is it so hard to feel the difference between 400,000 and 500,000 COVID-19 deaths — and how might that impact our decision making during the pandem...
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is on track to pass a number next week that once seemed unthinkable: Half a million people in this country dead from...
Millions of people in Texas have gone three or more days without power, water or both. Texas has had winter weather before, so what went so wrong this...
After the Senate vote failed to convict former President Donald Trump, a clearer picture of the political consequences is emerging — both for the Repu...
There's evidence of at least seven U.S. variants of the coronavirus, while another that emerged from the U.K. is poised to become the dominant strain...
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, says more than 60 countries around the world are using COVID-19 as an excuse to skirt international law by c...
We asked for your questions on navigating love and dating during the pandemic. Therapist and sexologist Lexx Brown-James has answers. She's joined by...
The pandemic economy has left different people in vastly different situations. Today, we introduce four American indicators — people whose paths will...
The Biden administration has set a goal: a majority of public schools open "at least one day a week" by the 100th day of his presidency. But it's poss...
In the weeks after Jan. 6. insurrection, even top Republicans like Mitch McConnell said Donald Trump provoked the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, l...
Using data from several states that have published their own maps and lists of where vaccination sites are located, NPR identified disparities in the...
People of color experience more air and water pollution than white people and suffer the health impacts. The federal government helped create the prob...
Why does Whitney Houston's 1991 Super Bowl national anthem still resonate 30 years later? In this episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute, host Sam Sander...
The pandemic leveled live performance, and the industry is last in line for a return to normal. Musician Zoe Keating and production designer Terry Mor...
Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is one of President Biden's priorities with the newest COVID-19 relief package. But Republicans say it will hu...
A third COVID-19 vaccine could receive emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration this month. The vaccine made by Johnson & Joh...
For months, Myanmar's military party has claimed — without evidence — that its poor performance in the country's November parliamentary elections was...
This past week, President Biden signed executive orders that represent his administration's first actions in the fight against climate change. Some ch...
