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Your covid vaccine questions answered

11 mins; September 03, 2025

Corporate America ditched DEI. What happened to the employees?

7 mins; September 02, 2025

Cumberbatch and Colman team up to play a couple at war

8 mins; September 01, 2025

The lasting impact of the administration’s changes to health science

9 mins; August 31, 2025

Covering Katrina: navigating New Orleans in the days after the storm

9 mins; August 30, 2025

President Trump, entertainer-in-chief

8 mins; August 29, 2025

Gazans are starving. How did it get this bad?

11 mins; August 28, 2025

Should the government be in the business of business?

8 mins; August 27, 2025

Can Trump call the National Guard into Chicago too?

10 mins; August 26, 2025

What a day in immigration court is like now

11 mins; August 25, 2025

Bubbling questions about the limits of the AI revolution

10 mins; August 24, 2025

High stakes diplomacy and canceled Halibut Olympia, insights from the Alaska Summit

12 mins; August 23, 2025

Famine is declared in Gaza. Will anything change?

7 mins; August 22, 2025

It's not your imagination. Hurricanes are getting more severe.

6 mins; August 21, 2025

What's Trump doing in DC?

9 mins; August 20, 2025

How hundreds of babies and children ended up in a mass grave in Ireland

12 mins; August 19, 2025

Trump and Zelenskyy meet again

12 mins; August 18, 2025

What we know about President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics

9 mins; August 17, 2025

Covering climate change in the city of love

9 mins; August 16, 2025

What Bad Bunny means to Puerto Ricans

9 mins; August 15, 2025

Can Trump get Putin to make a deal?

9 mins; August 14, 2025

President Trump is upending global trade as we know it. What comes next?

7 mins; August 13, 2025

Trump and Putin are set to meet. Do they want the same thing?

9 mins; August 12, 2025

Trump takes over DC Police. Will other cities be next?

11 mins; August 11, 2025

Deep-sea mining is unregulated. Some want to forge ahead anyway

10 mins; August 10, 2025

Investigating the Russia investigations. What's left to learn?

9 mins; August 08, 2025

How some online networks target and radicalize kids

13 mins; August 07, 2025

Hurricane Katrina helped change New Orleans' public defender system

11 mins; August 06, 2025

How gerrymandering became a blood sport

8 mins; August 05, 2025

What happens to the internet if no one clicks search links?

6 mins; August 04, 2025

Is climate change a reason not to have kids?

10 mins; August 03, 2025

A tricky reporting assignment: covering your own workplace

12 mins; August 02, 2025

Trump's tariffs are (still) coming

10 mins; August 01, 2025

A fact checker hangs up his Pinocchios

8 mins; July 31, 2025

How firing hundreds of employees this year has transformed the Justice Department

8 mins; July 30, 2025

A new executive order tackles causes of homelessness. Why are some advocates worried?

9 mins; July 29, 2025

What reporting in Gaza shows amid Trump's break from Netanyahu on starvation

8 mins; July 28, 2025

Facing persistent scrutiny over Epstein, the Trump administration rehashes 2016 probe

13 mins; July 27, 2025

Texas floods: how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives

10 mins; July 26, 2025

How have RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies impacted America's public health?

11 mins; July 25, 2025

Six months in, how Trump has changed the Education Department.

10 mins; July 24, 2025

Six months of 'shock and awe' on immigration enforcement

10 mins; July 23, 2025

A civil rights organization declares a 'state of emergency' in the U.S.

9 mins; July 22, 2025

Is Emil Bove the face of a new MAGA judiciary?

9 mins; July 21, 2025

With plea deals canceled, what happens next with the Guantanamo 9/11 trials?

11 mins; July 20, 2025

Florida: the frontline of Trump's immigration crackdown

11 mins; July 19, 2025

Trump says no one cares about Epstein. Why won't his base let it go?

9 mins; July 18, 2025

Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

2 mins; July 18, 2025

Will air traffic control's $12.5 billion update fix employee morale?

8 mins; July 17, 2025

Tariffs are a tax. Are you already paying it?

10 mins; July 16, 2025

Climate change is fueling brutal rainstorms. Here's how to stay safe

10 mins; July 15, 2025

Trump threatens Russia over Ukraine. Will it make a difference?

6 mins; July 14, 2025

What do we know about what's driving political violence?

7 mins; July 13, 2025

Inside the Diddy trial: why it felt like a watch party at the courthouse

13 mins; July 12, 2025

When old oil wells become 'orphans,' that's a problem

7 mins; July 11, 2025

A harrowing journey to find food in Gaza

10 mins; July 10, 2025

After devastating floods a Central Texas community comes together

10 mins; July 09, 2025

The U.S. birth rate is falling fast. Why? It's complicated

10 mins; July 08, 2025

Flooding is common in Texas Hill Country. This was different

11 mins; July 07, 2025

When it comes to vaccines, how are pediatricians restoring trust?

12 mins; July 06, 2025

The songs that define America

13 mins; July 04, 2025

The Trump domestic policy megabill is set to become law

9 mins; July 03, 2025

Saving history one story at a time

10 mins; July 02, 2025

House Speaker may have to make a lot of promises to get bill to Trump's desk

7 mins; July 01, 2025

Why a GOP senator says the budget bill breaks Trump's promise

8 mins; June 30, 2025

What this term says about where the Supreme Court is headed

11 mins; June 29, 2025

Iran's nuclear sites got bombed. North Korea? It's another story

13 mins; June 28, 2025

The Supreme Court just lifted a key check on presidential power

10 mins; June 27, 2025

Autism rates have exploded. Could the definition be partly to blame?

8 mins; June 26, 2025

We're not built for this heat

12 mins; June 25, 2025

Medical views on self-managed abortion shifting since overturn of Roe

10 mins; June 24, 2025

Iran launches missiles at U.S. base in Qatar

9 mins; June 23, 2025

What are the wider repercussions of the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear sites?

9 mins; June 22, 2025

Covering the military parade and a No Kings rally on the same day

9 mins; June 21, 2025

How Gabby Giffords is grappling with the rise in political violence

10 mins; June 20, 2025

Afghans in the US have lost protected status. What happens now?

10 mins; June 19, 2025

Lessons from Iraq, as Trump teases attacks on Iran

9 mins; June 18, 2025

What's at stake in the conflict between Israel and Iran?

12 mins; June 17, 2025

The big SCOTUS decisions looming

8 mins; June 16, 2025

Is this the end of the rule of law in America?

8 mins; June 15, 2025

The spending cuts one state could face if Trump's massive bill becomes law

9 mins; June 14, 2025

Israel struck Iran. What's next?

9 mins; June 13, 2025

What's next in the case that symbolizes Trump's immigration crackdown?

8 mins; June 12, 2025

Is Trump's immigration bet working?

7 mins; June 11, 2025

Fentanyl deaths among the young are dropping. Can the trend continue?

8 mins; June 10, 2025

The Insurrection Act is back on the table

9 mins; June 09, 2025

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass reacts to federalized National Guard troops in her city

12 mins; June 08, 2025

Reporting on abuse by federal judges means cracking open a culture of fear

11 mins; June 07, 2025

Do private school voucher programs work?

14 mins; June 06, 2025

A new travel ban is coming. Will it hold up in court?

8 mins; June 05, 2025

How New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern broke the political mold

18 mins; June 04, 2025

What's going wrong with aid in Gaza?

8 mins; June 03, 2025

What's the message behind Trump's military parade?

6 mins; June 02, 2025

Three years into his war on Ukraine, what does Putin really want?

12 mins; June 01, 2025

What's behind Trump's crackdown on universities — and why it matters

11 mins; May 30, 2025

The CDC changed its COVID vaccine guidance. What does that mean for you?

8 mins; May 29, 2025

Children of ISIS fighter find new life in Minnesota

22 mins; May 28, 2025

NPR takes Trump to court

12 mins; May 27, 2025

What Trump's cuts to intelligence could mean for national security

11 mins; May 26, 2025

Misinformation channels to the Oval Office

9 mins; May 25, 2025

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