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In Philadelphia, students, teachers and staff come back from the holiday break even as COVID-19 is surging and essential personnel are out sick. Is in-person learning a good idea at this time?

Officials in Europe are working toward a common approach to address Russia's threat against Ukraine. France's president says the EU must use every tool in its diplomatic tool box.

The program aims to offer affordable housing for those who are eligible, especially as rent prices are skyrocketing.

Chicago was shaken by the shooting death of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega last Saturday. Nationally, the number of children shot has jumped during the pandemic.

Alex Cohen of member station KQED reports on a controversial roadside billboard in the Los Angeles metro area advertising a local Spanish-language television station. The ad substitutes "Los Angeles, California" with "Los Angeles, Mexico" -- and the ad has become a flash point for opponents of illegal immigration from the southern border with Mexico.

Read a timeline of selected events leading up to, and following, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A University of North Carolina professor is doing his best to shatter the myth that physics classes are difficult boring. In one example, Richard Superfine has students pretend to be a train to demonstrate magnetic levitation.

In an interview with NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid, the vice president also called on Congress to codify abortion rights.

Republican Darren Bailey, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, will face Democrat and billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker on the Illinois ballot for governor in November.

Activists from both sides of the abortion issue gathered outside the Supreme Court today. Some were celebrating. Some were protesting.

Last week, Morning Edition aired a piece about right-to-work laws in Kentucky. To clarify some assertions made in the piece, Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, of the Brookings Institution.

Independents at this point say they are not on board with the impeachment inquiry. But with more revelations coming out, the pollsters warn, that could change.

An Oklahoma Senate bill that prohibits "the manufacture or sale of food or products which use aborted human fetuses" has some folks scratching their heads, and wondering if it's real.

The U.S. Postal Service has big plans to replace its aging fleet of 165,000 gasoline-burning delivery vehicles. And some are pushing for the electric trucks to be built by union labor in Wisconsin.

The entertainment company estimates there are now 100 million households using someone else's account. Last month, it announced plans to start charging for password sharing.

The referendum pitched by Addison Davis comes as the district sees a projected $89 million deficit for the period ending in June.

Rodrigues island's "cafe marron" plant has been presumed extinct for scores of years. Then, one day, a little boy told his teacher that the plant lived, near his house. Suddenly, an obscure, skinny little bush that nobody had noticed became an international treasure and the focus of a 20-year effort to preserve it.

The Senate asks in hearings whether fraud was committed during the dispersal of Federal Emergency Management Agency aid following hurricanes in the South last year.

Belmont Park is 100-years-old as it prepares for another running of the Belmont Stakes, the last leg of the Triple Crown.

Police in three Western states are seeking the reclusive leader of a religious group which openly practices polygamy. Warren Jeffs heads the church, which dominates twin towns on the Utah-Arizona border. Jeffs and three followers were indicted this week for sexual assault and conduct involving a minor. Howard Berkes reports.

The remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas Fritsch were laid to rest in Rocky Hill, Conn., on Saturday, 37 years after he was killed in a firefight in Vietnam. Amy Jeffries of member station WNPR reports.

Galveston, Texas, issues a voluntary evacuation order ahead of Hurricane Rita, which is predicted to make landfall on the Texas coast over the weekend. Elliott Jennings, emergency management coordinator for Galveston County, tells host Michele Norris how the city is getting ready for Rita.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, Senior National Correspondent Linda Wertheimer says the Sept. 11 commission's final report is must reading.

First Lady Jill Biden is departing on a trip to Eastern Europe to visit Ukrainian refugees, as well as U.S. personnel in the region. It's her most high-profile endeavor since her husband took office.

Several large wildfires are burning throughout California and the largest is the Carr Fire which is so unpredictable, authorities say they've been issuing evacuation orders pretty liberally.