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Some countries around the globe are still struggling to get people vaccinated. Dozens of countries still haven't gotten 10% of their populations vaccinated.

A new study says Florida students who use federal Pell grants to pay for college are graduating at about the same rate as their peers.The Hechinger Report…

Bottom line: It's cheaper. No actual votes will be tallied, and the difference in delegates might only be one or two even if all the votes were counted and Sanders won.

Louie Phipp's first album comes out this month. It was a chance to collaborate with old friends and new partners virtually. The only difference is that Louie is nine years old.

Argentina's World Cup win on Sunday was especially meaningful for star Lionel Messi. Where does he rank now that he's joined legend Diego Maradona in Argentina's World Cup winner's circle?

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rutherford Falls showrunner Sierra Teller Ornelas about the recent success of Native-led movies and TV series, like Prey, Dark Winds, Reservation Dogs and her own show.

The doll is quite popular.One bakery sells half-a-dozen Barbie cakes a week! But like Barbies everywhere, she is controversial because of skin tone and the fact that not every kid can afford her.

Wisconsin's statewide races this year highlight a tough truth for Democrats about abortion rights: even if they score some hard-fought wins, actual policy gains still may not come.

Child care sometimes gets in the way of health care for busy moms. Now a hospital in Dallas is trying something new to help parents not miss so many doctor's appointments.

A quick exchange with Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo was enough to fuel speculation that Tom Brady might not really be retiring from the NFL.

Twelve members of a boys soccer team and their coach were trapped in the cave by rising floodwaters more than a week ago. "We found them safe," Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osotthanakorn says.

Twitter's communications email went dark after mass layoffs late last year. CEO Elon Musk announced this weekend (and NPR confirmed) that it now responds to press inquiries with a single poop emoji.

Strayed's half-sister checked Wild out of the public library because she thought it looked like an interesting travel book. She realized that she and the author shared the same father.

When Miami-Dade Marine Patrol Officer Nelson Silva discovered the young dolphin in Biscayne Bay, it was tangled in an illegal gill net from its tail to its nose.

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with St. Louis Alderman Alisha Sonnier, about what's changed in the 10 years since Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo.

A college student in Ukraine's Kherson region is worried after seeing that Russia had taken several towns in the area.

The president gave in to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in their State of the Union spat, with political pressure mounting against him. But negotiating an end to the shutdown is a higher bar.

For the first time since 1991, the U.S. could miss making the Women's World Cup knockout round. NPR's A Martinez talks to Alicia DelGallo of USA Today Sports about the reasons why.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Elaine Kamarck of the Center for Effective Public Management at The Brookings Institution, about what's next for Nikki Haley after Donald Trump won the GOP primary.

The new 8.5-foot telescope is set to launch this Tuesday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a clear objective: to explore the origins of the universe.

Since 1990, faithful readers have followed the cases of Easy Rawlins, author Walter Mosley's hard-boiled, Los Angeles detective. His new novel, Blonde Faith, is the 10th book in the Rawlins series — and, Mosley says, the last.

A small, interracial group plans to meet Monday on the steps of the town courthouse. They'll read a resolution condemning the May 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington. He was accused of killing a local farmer's wife.

The World Cup begins next week in Brazil. Before it gets going, check out the work of an author who has spent decades writing about Latin America, and who has a particular affinity for soccer.

In her book Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History, author Diana Wells explores the history of and people's relationship with about 100 trees. She says she hopes the book will inspire readers to discover the trees around them because "we need the trees and they need us."

Strep throat is more prevalent this year, and amoxicillin manufacturers didn't make enough of the antibiotic to go around.