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The vote follows World Health Organization guidance saying that due to cannabis' therapeutic use and other factors, it "is not consistent wi...

Vaccination will be voluntary, and will begin with health care workers and people with chronic medical conditions. Russia's Sputnik V vaccin...

Social distancing fell dramatically between spring and fall and the gap between Democrats and Republicans widened. But both ends of the poli...

The world needs convincing that the U.S. can lead again, and it may not let it, according to foreign policy experts Aaron David Miller and R...

A bipartisan group of Senators is proposing a nearly $908 billion compromise relief bill with millions of Americans about to fall off a clif...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Dan Lynch, emergency medical services director in Fresno County, Calif., about the grim outlook for hospi...

The United Kingdom has become the first country to approve a thoroughly tested COVID-19 vaccine. A British regulatory agency approved the Pf...

The governors of California and New York have sounded the alarm that hospitals may be overwhelmed this winter if COVID-19 infection rates co...

The U.K. is the first country where regulators have authorized a major COVID-19 vaccine. The first doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be avail...

The president wants Congress to repeal Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, a provision that provides legal protection for te...

The pandemic is a major reason, but the number of international students has been falling for years.(Image credit: Grace Heejung Kim for NPR...

When Xiomy De la Cruz saw her neighbors losing their jobs during the pandemic, she decided to help feed them. Many were unable to access gov...

Staff members at a Seattle hospital that faced the country's initial surge of coronavirus cases offer advice to people working in hospitals...

Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, is claiming victory after three weeks of war. The rebel leader, however, says it's not over.

The U.K. has formally approved Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, becoming the first Western country to approve its use for the general public.

Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam, all in their 20s, have been held since pleading guilty in November for organizing a protest last year...

A British regulatory agency approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Wednesday. It could be dispersed within days to the neediest people, govern...

The Labor Day 2019 blaze aboard the Conception killed 33 passengers and one crew member. Prosecutors say the vessel's captain failed to foll...

Hospitals across the country are struggling as staffers get infected with the coronavirus. It's especially tough for small, rural hospitals,...

A recent government report called the mine safety standard regulating deadly silica dust "out of date," and difficult to enforce. The Biden...

If approved, the vaccine could be distributed before the end of the year, BioNTech says.

Astronomers compare losing the observatory in Puerto Rico to losing a big brother. It was once the world's largest single-dish radio telesco...

Hospitals across the country are struggling as staffers get infected with coronavirus. It's especially tough for small, rural hospitals, whe...

Attorney General William Barr said federal authorities have not uncovered any widespread fraud that might have affected the outcome of the 2...

NPR recalls times throughout U.S. history when Americans either rejected or embraced public health messaging and discusses how public health...