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The White House is hesitant to halt imports of Russian oil, but the administration is not ruling it out.

The designation is an effort to promote the state's $1 billion strawberry industry.

There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.

ECMO machines became a last-ditch treatment for COVID. But only half of the patients who got ECMO survived, raising questions about whether this expensive and hard to access treatment is worth it.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Ben Shephard, author of The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War, about how today's crisis compares to the number of displaced people after World War II.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition, about the effect of historic flooding on the Mississippi River on corn and soybean farmers.

Will Smith smacked Chris Rock over an insensitive joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Many in Black hair care saw it as an unfortunate but important moment.

In 2000, Vladimir Putin began targeting oligarchs who did not bend to his authority. The loyalists who remained — and new ones who subsequently got rich — became like ATM machines for the president.

The powerful singer previews songs from her album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness. Watch her and you'll see calm in her eyes; listen to her and you'll sense torment in her heart.

For years, the parents of a slain Florida State University professor have been the faces of an effort to secure grandparent’s visitation rights under certain conditions. This year, a bill allowing for it is on its way to the governor after the Senate gave it unanimous approval Wednesday.

President Biden is planning to travel to Brussels this week to meet with fellow NATO leaders. Also, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson begins her Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday.

DeBose is the first openly queer woman of color to win an Oscar for her acting.

A recent study found that during the pandemic's surge after surge, a majority of American health care workers experienced psychiatric symptoms. And yet, very few got help for these symptoms.

The enrollment period started in March and is open to anyone making 150% of the federal poverty level or less.

After a seven-year prison term, James went through a rigorous education process including job training, drug counseling and support meetings. James watched others in the program drift back to crime while he struggled to overcome the obstacles that ex-offenders face when trying to re-connect to family and society.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Slobodan Milosevic lashed out against the U.N. war crimes tribunal today on the second day of his war crimes trial. The former Yugoslav president called the trial a "lynch process," and challenged the tribunal's jurisdiction. Milosevic is charged with crimes against humanity, including genocide, for his role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Overalls have clothed Americans at work and play since the 1700s, becoming a national icon in the process. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the evolution of overalls -- from low-class work clothes to pop fashion -- as part of NPR's Present at the Creation series.

Forty years ago John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, getting the U.S. space program moving with a vengeance and helping spark a new commitment to TV news. Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite reported the event to a live television audience on that day in 1962, and he offers his reflections. (NPR aired the following correction to this story on air on Feb. 21, 2002:"I'm crushed. The once most trusted man America has let me down." This is from Hilton Evans in Randolph, Massachusetts. "Mine will likely be only one of dozens if not hundreds of e-mails correcting Walter Cronkite's assertion that Velcro was one of many spinoffs of the U.S. space program. Velcro was not invented by NASA. It wasn't even invented in the United States. Velcro was invented by Swiss inventor and hiker George de Mestral who noticed how flower burrs stuck to his pants. Upon examining the burrs with a microscope, he noticed each burr was covered with tiny fur grabbing hooks. Mestral realized he could use this natural design to create an alternative to the zipper. Mestral's idea was patented in 1955 after he perfected a process for creating the microhooks in nylon.")

By some estimates, more than half the languages spoken in the world today will be gone by the end of the century. For Morning Edition, NPR's Joe Palca reports on one attempt in Alaska to slow the extinction process.

The Senate made history Thursday when it confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. After 233 years, she'll be the first Black woman to ever serve on the nations highest court.

Dmytro Shymkiv says workers are scrambling 24/7 under wartime conditions to make and distribute medical supplies, including drugs that can treat lung damage from a potential chemical attack.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's judicial philosophy.

Massachusetts lawmakers and supporters of the bill say collecting detailed data could help bring more resources to Asian-Americans. But some protesters worry the data will be misused.

They say they were placed on the list for refusing to inform on other Muslims. The suit is part of a broad wave of cases challenging the secretive no-fly list and U.S. counterterrorism strategies.

Next week the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the federal judge President Biden has tapped as his Supreme Court nominee.