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COVAX was set up to enable global access to vaccines against COVID. Yet nearly 80 countries will miss a target of vaccinating 40% of their populations by year's end. Here's what went wrong.

Some of the most heated protests in San Francisco have been over big, sleek buses — private shuttles that Silicon Valley tech companies like Google and Facebook use to get their city-living employees to work. They've become a symbol of the city's changing socioeconomic landscape.

"This is a huge, huge budget. This is a huge deal," DeSantis said of his proposal, which also includes pay raises and bonuses for teachers and law enforcement. It would need to be approved by the Florida Legislature.

Don Gonyea talks with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear about storm damage in his state, and how the recovery effort is going.

Potter, a white former police officer, says she drew her gun by mistake when she fatally shot Wright, a Black motorist. Of the first 12 jurors seated, one identifies as Black and two as Asian.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the new album by Snail Mail, the 2020 book Piranesi and more.

Large retailers have spent billions of dollars to woo workers. Smaller stores that can't do that expect staff shortages will lead to lost sales. They're asking shoppers to be patient.

You know about Black Friday, but Small Business Saturday is also promoted as a means for smaller businesses to make up for the sales they lost during the pandemic.

A group calling itself Krause House DAO, named after the late Chicago Bulls general manager, Jerry Krause, has raised $4 million with the long-shot goal of trying to buy an NBA sports franchise.

Bisa French is Richmond, CA's new police chief. She's the first woman and woman of color to lead the force in its history. Activists are cautiously optimistic she can foster real change.

A NASA investigation of Boeing's newest space capsule has found numerous software bugs that the agency says should have been found in internal testing — and not an unmanned space flight.

For the fourth year, the anti-Trump Women's March will stage events in Washington, D.C., and other places. After years of controversy, the group now has new leadership and a new focus.

Some state Republicans are against federal vaccine mandates. In Iowa, a new law allows workers to opt out if they think the vaccine would hurt their well-being or that of those they live with.

Chile held the first round of its presidential election Sunday. The leading candidates came from the left and the far right.

Scientists in South Africa say preliminary data suggests the omicron coronavirus variant is already widespread across southern Africa — and this happened in a very short period of time.

England took bronze Saturday in the Women's World Cup. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to Mike Pesca of Slate's The Gist podcast about Sunday's final game to decide who will win gold.

There's a new, heavily mutated COVID-19 variant called omicron. Scientists tell us what's known so far about it, what's not yet known, and what this all means for public health.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his government will withdraw sweeping farm law changes that provoked widespread protests and posed a significant political challenge to his administration.

In the lawsuit, the professors claimed university officials told them that going against the executive branch of the government was “adverse” to the school’s interests.

A new play created by Los Angeles' Cornerstone Theater tells the story of Los Angeles' Native American population and its search for identity in a big city.

The allegations overshadowed Moore's 2017 campaign as he fell in a stunning defeat to Doug Jones, the first Alabama Democrat elected to the Senate in 25 years.

Dorothea Lasky and Alex Dimitrov of Astro Poets want to bring astrology up to speed with shifting views of gender, sexuality and pop culture.

Many of them fought Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region. They say they are ready to fight again.

Critic John Powers discusses the Italian documentary, Fire at Sea, and the novel, These Are the Names. The works take very different — but nonetheless poignant — approaches to the refugee situation.

The 87-year-old conceptual artist unveils a large-scale installation of his work in Marfa, Texas, this week. He's spent his career creating site-specific art that often treats light as its subject.