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Michigan is one of the states that turned to lottery drawings to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19. There's concern among some health experts that interest will drop once the lotteries end.

New analyses of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic suggests the pandemic may have been spreading from inside the Huanan Seafood Market two months before doctors detected the first cases.

One of the scientists who signed a recent letter calling for more investigation of the lab-leak origin theory says new data has come to light. And that information has changed his thinking.

FARC rebels used to chain their kidnap victims in the jungle until they received ransom. Now tourists pay ex-guerrillas hundreds of dollars to take them hiking and whitewater rafting there.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Latif Nasser of WNYC's Radiolab about the recent news of the release of Guantanamo detainee Abdul Latif Nasser, whom he spent years investigating.

Rufino Rodriguez worked as a respiratory therapist in a newborn intensive care unit in Utah. He died of COVID-19 after receiving his first vaccine shot. He was 65 years old.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with pro-democracy opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya of Belarus, who remains in exile after challenging her country's authoritarian president.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker about their new book, I Alone Can Fix It, which chronicles the final year of the Trump presidency.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that overdose deaths last year increased nearly 30% across the country. In Florida, the rate increased more than 37%.

King Mswati III has ruled the country formerly known as Swaziland for 35 years. On Friday, he called the protests "satanic." Pro-democracy sentiment is growing, and analysts say turmoil will continue.

One day after a federal district judge in Texas ruled against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, President Biden said the Department of Justice intends to appeal the decision.

The rising young baritone, searching for diversity in the opera house, tries on his composer hat by putting a Black spin on Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

Before multiplex cinemas, India had tens of thousands of single-screen movie houses. But the way Indians watch movies has changed, and the pandemic forced many old cinemas to shut their doors forever.

The latest infection highlights the challenge for Olympic organizers to keep the virus at bay as tens of thousands of athletes and other participants convene during an ongoing pandemic.

Season two of Mindy Kaling's "steamy teen romance" gives Asian American characters their own complicated stories of navigating love, grief and even a new frenemy.

Nancy Marino of Yorktown, Virginia, planned a road trip with her friend before the pandemic. It's a journey she took the first chance she got. It was a journey she had to make alone.

Two California men, angry over former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, have been indicted on charges they plotted to firebomb the Democratic Party's headquarters in Sacramento.

In Liège, Belgium's third-largest city, water from the Meuse river overflowed into parts of the city center, prompting city officials to call for residents to evacuate the area or seek higher ground.

Sajid Javid tested positive two days before the United Kingdom is set to reopen following months of lockdowns. Cases, driven by the delta variant, are up sharply in the U.K.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Vox's senior political correspondent Andrew Prokop about West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's political evolution.

Rapper and DJ Biz Markie has died. He was 57 years old. The self-deprecating rapper was known for his 1989 hit "Just a Friend."

An Israeli sketch writer talks about making comedy after the ouster of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, and how to handle humor around the country's serious topics.

The artist took to Instagram to address criticism of her dancing videos and to say that those are the only performances she will be doing under her father's conservatorship.

Landmines make the northern part of the Iraq-Iran border forbidding for humans, but they also seem to have created space for what's thought to be a growing population of rare leopards.

The Trump administration had stalled on reviewing the proposals, which the Census Bureau says would produce more accurate data about Latinos and people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa.