The Second Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump starts this week. House Democrats will argue that Trump incited an insurrection last month.
Former Secretary of State George Shultz died Feb. 6 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 100.
The Wyoming Republican Party voted on Saturday to censure Rep. Liz Cheney for her vote to impeach former President Trump.
Leon Spinks, who shocked the boxing world with his 1978 defeat of Muhammad Ali to claim the heavyweight championship, died Friday in Henderson, Nev. He was 67. |
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COVID-19 has been mutating into variants that are more transmissible, less responsive to vaccines and make reinfections more common. One man's case is offering scientists surprising clues about where the new coronavirus variants emerged, and why they're causing explosive outbreaks on three continents.
The sex trade is illegal but widely practiced in Thailand – and entwined with the tourist industry. For people in rural provinces, Thailand's tourist hubs offered good-paying jobs. Pandemic travel restrictions have had a dramatic impact.
Last summer, Ella Guity returned to the village of Rio Esteban on the coast of northern Honduras, home to a group with African and indigenous roots known as the Garifuna. Ella had left years earlier in search of economic opportunities in the big city, but the pandemic led her back home.
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The world's biggest vaccine campaign has begun in India. They've got to reach urban dwellers as well as the two-thirds of Indians living in rural areas — and deal with vaccine hesitancy. Here's an early progress report.
If a young person says they want to end their life, how do you help? First, don't panic. Suicide is preventable. Here's advice for helping young people in crisis from people who've lived through it.
For more than 40 years, MacArthur award-winning photographer Dawoud Bey has focused his lens on people and places that tell the stories and history of Black America. Click here to see more of Bey's images. |
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NFL official Sarah Thomas is the first woman to officiate in a Super Bowl. It's history, but also part of a trend with more women officiating at the top levels of men's sports. Hear the story or read it here.
In the online QAnon universe, former President Donald Trump is seen as the savior of humanity, someone who is destined to rescue the entire world from the forces of darkness. But with Trump out of office, what happens to this movement? Listen here or read the story.
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri has had a complicated start to her first term in office. NPR's Ailsa Chang spoke with Bush about her progressive priorities for Congress, the impeachment trial and the challenges she anticipates for advancing her priorities. Listen here. |
After more than 50 years in the fashion industry, Norma Kamali is known for iconic designs like the sleeping bag coat, and the bold red bathing popularized by Farah Fawcett. (How I Built This)
I Love Lucy made television history when it first aired in 1951. Lucille Ball became the godmother of TV sitcoms, but it was her husband and co-star, Desi Arnaz, who became one of the great TV innovators who changed the business of television. (Planet Money)
Running a side gig isn't always glamorous. (Life Kit)
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Why does Whitney Houston's 1991 Super Bowl national anthem still resonate 30 years later? (It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders)
In his first major foreign policy address since assuming office, President Biden promised that the country would once again be a reliable ally to its partners. And Kamala Harris faces a common vice presidential dilemma: what is my role in this administration? (The NPR Politics Podcast)
Who is "Black enough" for reparations? (Code Switch)
When life gives you lemons...make a battery. (Short Wave) |
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