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A mutation of the coronavirus was discovered spreading rapidly through London and other parts of England. Most of the country is now under a...

Barred from traveling to many countries, Americans are flocking to Mexico despite the risk of the coronavirus and CDC warnings not to visit...

Staffing schools for in-person learning hasn't been easy. In North Carolina, the pressure to keep schools open during the coronavirus pandem...

Brooke Williamson owned four restaurants in Los Angeles before the coronavirus pandemic began. She talks to NPR's Noel King about losing thr...

The attack killed one Iraqi civilian and caused damage to the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad as well as surrounding residential areas. No...

More than 1 million people went through checkpoints at U.S. airports on each of the past two days. That's down considerably from a year ago,...

The children were rescued after being abducted on Saturday in the second mass kidnapping of schoolchildren in Nigeria's Katsina state in eig...

As intensive care units hit capacity, hospitals across the state are being forced to consider that they may not be able to provide critical...

Some cities and regions in the heartland want to bring energy and vitality to their towns by attracting dynamic workers. The programs are ge...

Artists inspired by the Black Live Matter movement have created images that have lasted even as protests have faded. Who are they? And how w...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with St. Paul, Minn., Mayor Melvin Carter about the need for state and local funding in the latest coronavirus re...

The top military official with the federal vaccine effort spoke less than 24 hours after Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine became the second to win...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee about their 2021 Emergency Watchlist.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Brad Smith, Microsoft president, about the cyber-offensive American intelligence officials say Russia has undertaken.

NPR's Scott Simon asks public health expert Bruce Y. Lee what lessons past vaccine roll-outs hold for the distribution of the coronavirus va...

The announcement follows the revelation of a massive cyberattack against numerous government agencies as well as a number of private compani...

Residents waged a protest on Friday, demanding to know why senior faculty were getting the vaccine before front-line workers who see COVID-1...

D.C.'s mayor urged the federal government to send more medicine to no avail. Now the states are sharing their supply to vaccinate health car...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Maya King of Politico about growing dissension within Black Lives Matter as the movement centralizes its pol...

The number of Texans who have died from COVID-19 is more than 24,000 and growing. It's the second-highest number of deaths behind New York s...

Federal authorities warn that a major cyberattack poses a risk to U.S. national security. Russia is believed to be behind the hacks, but the...

Control of the Senate and perhaps the future of U.S. health care reform hinge on two runoffs in Georgia. Democrats are campaigning hard on h...

As the U.S. withdraws all but 2,500 troops from Afghanistan soon, it is leaving behind a country plagued by a surge in violent attacks, with...

"As time went by, the cars got buried," said a driver. "I was really scared." Japan's Self-Defense Forces distributed food, blankets and fue...

Pfizer is pushing back on the Trump administration's suggestion that the company is having trouble producing enough COVID-19 vaccine.(Image...