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Dr. Jared Fox says the region's high vaccination rate is a good starting point, but indoor gatherings and delta could lead to a surge even if the state isn't a hotspot for the new variant.

The president's budget details his ambitious (and costly) plans to invest in infrastructure and the social safety net — the likes of which the country hasn't seen in decades.

Since 2011, a fleet of seaweed patches double the size of the contiguous U.S. has cycled from West Africa to Florida, threatening beaches from Martinique to Miami. This year, it could grow bigger.

Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial began today in New York. Outside the courtroom, Trump complained about the proceedings.

We bring you the latest on the United Auto Worker's strike and hear from picketing workers in Brandon, Mississippi.

Many health insurance policies for part-time workers will end next year and won't be renewed. Better quality choices will likely be on the menu for these workers, though they are also going to cost people more.

Disney's board of directors meets Monday amid speculation that the entertainment company will buy Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar's animated offerings have been more successful than Disney's in recent years.

The law changes how most public employees pay union dues, while requiring more members pay dues to keep unions alive. The double-whammy law is seen as an existential threat by many workers and unions.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Senior has had insomnia for 25 years. Her new piece in The Atlantic is about her often futile attempts to fall asleep, and about the latest research into insomnia.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Phillip Goff of the Center for Policing Equity about how the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis speaks to larger issues with police department culture and diversity.

Authorities say five people are dead after a small plane crashed in Florida's Lake Okeechobee. A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office news release says…

A Saudi doctor drove into a market teeming with holiday shoppers in Magdeburg, an official said, as people mourned the victims and their shaken sense of security. Some 200 people were injured.

For Jewish American voters in Michigan it's been a difficult year. Monday marks a year since Hamas attacked Israel. In Detroit, Rabbi Ariana Silverman guides her community through this dark time.

After spending decades as a musician with her own label, Ani DiFranco reflects on how it all got started in her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream.

Bob Kerrey, a decorated war hero and former U.S. senator, has written a book about his experiences in Vietnam, including the raid he led on a village in which more than a dozen women and children were killed. Kerrey discusses the incident and his memoir, When I Was a Young Man, with Morning Edition host Bob Edwards. Read an excerpt of the book and hear an extended version of the interview online. (7:09) {STATIONS:} Kerrey's book, "When I Was a Young Man," is published by Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0151004749.

While you're working on your last-minute Contest entry (the deadline is this Sunday, April 14), check out these videos below to see what's caught our attention lately.

All Things Considered listener Joel Abrams shares how a story about Haitian farmworkers has stuck with him since it aired on the show in 1991.

The iconic orange roofs of Howard Johnson's restaurants were once fixtures of the American highway. But the chain faded in the '80s. The 60-year-old location in Lake Placid, N.Y., closed Tuesday.

Jason Meade, the white Ohio sheriff's deputy fatally shot Goodson, who was Black, in an encounter that led to racial justice protests. Goodson's family has filed a federal civil rights suit.

Wildfires, and the scorched hillsides they leave behind, can threaten drinking water for years after the smoke clears. One Colorado community is trying to get ahead of the problem.

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

To open or not to open? That’s the big question as the new school year comes around –right in the midst of a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in…

New York City isn't the only place pushing to expand free child care. We check in on this growing trend, and how states and cities are paying for it.

The perception is having lasting effects on retail, and criminal justice reform.

Ari Shapiro talks to jazz saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin about her new album Pursuance: The Coltranes and an artist she is grateful for: James Blake.