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Cambodia is one of the most fully COVID-19 vaccinated countries in the world. Besides help from China, the success is also due to systems already in place to combat malaria and other illnesses.

Climate change is hitting many developing countries hard. In Uganda, one climate activist worries that the upcoming international climate talks won't protect her home.

Amid a surge in gun violence in Philadelphia, funeral directors are struggling to meet the demand for their services — including guiding families through their shock and grief.

President Biden is only the second Catholic to hold the office. We explore how his faith informs his presidency ahead of an expected visit to the Vatican.

It has become too expensive to maintain the machines that read the old floppies. Even Sony, which used to make the disks, stopped manufacturing them a decade ago.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Sam Quinones, whose book The Least of Us, details how much more plentiful meth and fentanyl have become in the wake of the country's opioid crisis.

Mort Sahl had a stream-of-consciousness style of humor, and credited jazz as his influence. He started doing stand-up in the '50s, a time when most comedians were men in suits rattling off one-liners.

Though the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy was upheld by the Supreme Court, many school districts are distancing themselves from the organization. That includes two of the nation's largest systems--New York City and Broward County, Florida. But, as NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports, the scouts are fighting back ... filing a lawsuit challenging Broward County's ban.

In Florida today twenty-five electoral votes were cast by twenty-five people pledged to George W. Bush. Florida's electors met at the state Senate chamber in Tallahassee... with the president-elect's brother presiding:

Internet toy seller E-Toys was supposed to be one of the e-commerce companies with a shot at becoming a retail powerhouse. It had a top-rated Web site, a vast selection of high-end toys and excellent customer service. But as NPR's Elaine Korry reports, E-Toys is having a miserable holiday season. Sales are running way below expectations, cash is running short, and the company is unlikely to survive without a merger or a major sell-off of assets.

North Carolina's 14 electors gathered in Raleigh at noon to dutifully cast their ballots for George W. Bush. They were subject to some eleventh hour arm-twisting by Al Gore supporters, but to no avail. Bush won 56 percent of the state vote, and state law bars electors from voting for someone other than the person to whom they are pledged. That law was passed after the 1968 election, in which an elector pledged to Richard Nixon voted for George Wallace. Congress will officially count the 538 votes from around the nation on January 5.

NPR's Mike Shuster profiles Condoleezza Rice, the Stanford professor and foreign policy analyst who President-elect George W. Bush has named as his National Security Adviser. Rice was a Russian specialist in Bush's father's national security council. She also has been his foreign policy tutor throughout the campaign.

The New York City schools are poised to become the next big battleground over bilingual education. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy is scheduled to propose at a hearing tomorrow limits on the amount of time students can spend in bilingual programs. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

Commentator Steven Waldman says that this is a season of remarkable religious unity in the U.S. In the next few weeks Americans will celebrate: Hanukkah, Christmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and Rohatsu, an important Buddhist holiday. Religious variety has flourished without it being seen as a horrible threat to any particular religion. Americans have gotten pretty good at figuring out how to be different without being divisive.

Robert talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden who's in Jerusalem about election politics in Israel, and the prospects of a return to power by former right-wing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr, having read a new report from the CIA, wonders if the foreign policies of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice will be applicable to the world they might face.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Bujanovac, in southern Serbia, where ethnic Albanian militants have been waging an insurgency. Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica is demanding that the United Nations and NATO peacekeepers stop the insurgents from crossing from Kosovo into the buffer zone along the border with Serbia proper. At the same time, Kostunica has taken steps to improve relations with the majority ethnic Albanian population in the Presevo Valley. The U.N. Security Council meets tomorrow to discuss the issue.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem on the latest preparations for a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington.

Lisa talks with social critic Wendy Kaminer about the use of the prayer and the name of god in this week's speeches by President elect George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.

A commentary from Gwen Glenn, a Washington, DC based Journalist. As an African- American, she shares why she took the past five weeks of election confusion very personally.

Host Lisa Simeone talks to postmaster June Wagner of Bethlehem , Maryland about the heavy influx of mail during the holiday season because of the town's name.

Howie Movshovitz of Colorado Public Radio has this profile of filmmaker Ang Lee. Lee, a native of Taiwan, has earned a reputation for finding the essence of human experience in his subjects, no matter what their origin. Unlike his period pieces in previous films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is a Hong Kong action picture.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that weather won't be the only cause for delays at the nation's airports over the busy holiday season. Labor disputes at many airlines threaten to hinder travel for the 39 million people scheduled to fly between now and New Years Day.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President-elect George W. Bush's transition to the White House. Over the weekend, he selected Condoleezza Rice as National Security Advisor and Colin Powell as Secretary of State. While his initial appointments may be well-received, questions of bi-partisanship in Washington remain.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the difficulty many small towns have recruiting volunteer firefighters. Many potential volunteers must commute to other areas for work, and are unable to respond quickly to emergency calls. Others find the demand on their personal time hard to deal with. Some municipalities are adding to a few paid firefighters to their volunteer staffs, but even that solution has its drawbacks.