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Public health experts know what it takes to control a disease outbreak: access to testing and vaccines. But in the last two months of the monkeypox outbreak, the response has not met the need.

As oil producers in the OPEC Plus alliance meet Wednesday, they'll discuss cutting supplies. That could lead to higher gas prices and hints at new political challenges for the White House.

A new report finds that deaths related to childbirth complications-spiked nearly 80% since 2018, with COVID-19 being a factor in a quarter of the 1,178 deaths reported last year.

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in on Saturday as Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to be premier.

Kristin Smart, a college freshman, vanished from a California campus in 1996. Paul Flores was the last person seen with Smart as he walked her home from an off-campus party.

Heughan reflects on his journey to becoming a successful actor while hiking Scotland's West Highland Way.

Federal authorities charged David Wayne DePape with assault and attempted kidnapping in connection with the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in their San Francisco home.

We look at the attack on Speaker Pelosi's husband, the tenor of the midterm elections as well as the waning appetite among Republicans for continued support of Ukraine.

Rent hikes for the land and added fees at mobile home parks have kept many owners stuck in place.

The GOP candidate in the newly formed House district has to live down his bumpy time in the Trump administration in order to win. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Oct. 16, 2022.)

Haiti's government is pleading with the international community to send forces as the country's humanitarian crisis deepens. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald.

Nigeria is in the middle of a cash crisis as the country attempts to replace its old currency with a new one — leaving many cashless and furious.

The salacious murder trial of a prominent South Carolina attorney took a new twist when Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense in the killings of his wife and son.

Air monitoring continues in East Palestine after the crews released a number of toxic chemicals in what officials called a "controlled explosion" last week.

The Florida Supreme Court has rejected appeals by a death row inmate who killed Faye Vann in the Tallahassee Mall parking lot in 1990.

Research institutes in Novosibirsk were built as innovation centers in the USSR. Despite the brain drain, scientists and techies remain, but life for successful entrepreneurs can be unpredictable.

Among Native Americans, asthma rates are high, and those with asthma end up in clinics more often, miss more school and work, and are more likely to die from the condition, according to the CDC.

A JetBlue passenger jet took evasive action while coming in to land at Boston's Logan airport to avoid hitting another plane. It's the fifth such runway incursion over the last several weeks.

Circus performance transcends age, socioeconomic status, even language. You can go anywhere in the world and entertain anyone. And for me, it's my home away from home.

Joseph Holt, artistic director of Choral Artists of Sarasota, says the Florida premiere of the performance "is an important piece to present at this point."

Some Michigan lawmakers want to do away with the life without parole sentence that juveniles who have been convicted of murder can still receive.

You've likely heard lots this week about how rare the repeated failed Speaker votes have been. But is this a new level of dysfunction for Congress?

The St. Louis Cardinals' victory means joy and rapture for NPR's Yuki Noguchi. But lest you think it's all about the skill of players, there's a lot of superstitious ritual involved.

For the first time since Colorado legalized recreational cannabis sales, revenue has been down for a year. COVID-19 has something to do with that.

The Senate failed to advance a bill that would have reduced one of the most persistent racial disparities in criminal justice: punishment for crack cocaine.(Story aired on ATC on Jan. 9, 2023.)