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Retired four-star Army General Lloyd Austin will be announced as Biden's pick to lead the Pentagon. If confirmed, Austin will be the first A...

When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office, he'll have 16 days to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to save the last arms...

Two National Health Service workers with long histories of severe allergies received the Pfizer, BioNTech coronavirus vaccine Tuesday. Both...

COVID-19 hospitalizations are skyrocketing in the U.S. A new tool from NPR lets you look up your local hospital to see how it's faring.(Imag...

Hospitals in the Sun Belt are overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases. President-elect Biden is set to announce two more Cabinet nominations. Plus, th...

Even though many students are taking classes online, some schools are still embracing Snow Days, in part, so students can still enjoy the ma...

Minneapolis and other cities promised to cut police funding following this summer's racial justice protests, but rising violent crime has co...

The Sinopharm vaccine, developed by a Chinese pharmaceutical company, has already been approved for emergency use in a few countries.(Image...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, about Tuesday's meeting between the NAACP and Pre...

The Food and Drug Administration released its analysis of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. An independent committee will meet with the agency...

Uber has sold its autonomous vehicle research division to a startup named Aurora. It's a major shift for a company that once saw self-drivin...

President-elect Joe Biden wants to conserve 30% of U.S. land and water by 2030. It's part of a global push to avoid the worst effects of cli...

Following an employee complaint, Michigan's House of Representatives is being investigated for alleged coronavirus safety breaches, but stat...

The United Kingdom has begun mass vaccination against the coronavirus. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Morgan, an intensive care unit d...

The Trump administration has placed layers of harsh economic sanctions on Iran. But some countries and companies continue to do business wit...

The United Kingdom embarked on its mass coronavirus vaccination campaign on Monday. The person who received the first dose is 90-year-old Ma...

In the U.S., school closures during the pandemic have some worried about a "lost COVID generation" of children. But that's not the case in G...

Israelis debated this year whether Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank live under apartheid - what was a taboo subject in the pas...

The grandson of Forrest Fenn, who hid the trove that set off a hunt for buried treasure, confirmed that it was found by a man named Jack Stu...

The U.S. Justice Department said it is investigating whether Goodson, a 23-year-old Black man, had his civil rights violated when he was sho...

A new federal rule going into effect in the new year will only allow specially trained and certified dogs to accompany people with disabilit...

Florida officials say they were investigating a rogue message on a group chat stating, "it's time to speak up before another 17,000 people a...

After years of surveys and calculations, the countries said Tuesday that the world's highest peak now stands about 29,032 feet above sea lev...

A new study did experiments on millions of Lyft riders to figure out how much they value time. They found time is worth more money than prev...

The U.K. has begun inoculating people against COVID-19 using the Pfizer vaccine, amid concerns that future supplies of vaccines might be dis...