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A major row erupted in Brazil after the government suspended trials of a Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine. President Jair Bolsonaro is accus...

President Trump has been saying there will be a coronavirus vaccine "within weeks," and drugmakers are racing to produce one. In China, hund...

In rural America, hospitals are at or nearing capacity as coronavirus infections are rising at an alarming rate in the Midwest and Rocky Mou...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shankar Kurra, vice president of medical affairs at Rapid City Hospital in South Dakota, about the staffing sho...

News of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness has inspired hope around containing the coronavirus. But polls show that up to two-third...

In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orl...

The Arlington ceremony was closed to the public, due to coronavirus guidelines. President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attended...

A single injection of a drug called cabotegravir given every two months has been shown to be more effective than a daily oral dose of Truvad...

The president-elect pledges to welcome as many as 125,000 refugees a year — up from the Trump administration's record-low cap of 15,000. Her...

In the wake of election unrest, NPR wants to hear your hopes and ideas for moving forward as a nation. (Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Image...

Hospitals, a powerful political force in health care, fear lowering the eligibility age for Medicare will cost them billions of dollars beca...

China passed a resolution enabling Beijing to disqualify opposition politicians in Hong Kong. Four opposition members of the city's legislat...

A Massachusetts man drove over some potholes and was left with four flat tires and a $600 repair bill. He filled the holes with soil and sma...

A study finds that some lenders are overcharging military veterans, raising the cost of their home loans by thousands of dollars. Fair lendi...

The newest monument on the National Mall, which opens on Veterans Day, will provide a quiet shrine for Native vets to visit. Native American...

The Philadelphia business was the location of a bizarre press conference by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani last weekend. The business is cashing...

Much of the incident that ended in the shooting was captured on Facebook Live by Reed. On Tuesday, a grand jury said there was not enough ev...

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok have stepped up efforts to curb the spread of misinformation about the election, but researchers say f...

She made her way into the record books last week after becoming the first woman to climb the Golden Gate route of El Capitan in Yosemite Nat...

A new Vatican report on a former cardinal, who was defrocked amid allegations of sexual misconduct, shows that Popes John Paul II and Benedi...

In Poland, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest further abortion restrictions. Demonstrations provoked a rar...

Ethiopia's prime minister launched military operations in the country's northern region. This violent outbreak threatens to tip the country...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, about how his party flipped...

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, now also the state's governor-elect, about Utah's state of emergency to address ho...

Joe Biden said on the campaign trail that he was for reforming policing — but not defunding it. NPR discusses what federal actions on law en...