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The plan is part of the Biden administration's efforts to improve the nation's ongoing supply chain problems.

A new statewide mask mandate in California went into effect Wednesday, bringing the total number of states with mask mandates to 10. That has some public health advocates worried as omicron spreads.

A constitutional assembly elected by the people in Chile is writing a post-Pinochet constitution, in the midst of a divisive presidential election.

Talks about financial compensation between the Department of Justice and families that were forcibly separated during the Trump administration while seeking asylum have ended without a settlement.

A federal judge has overturned a bankruptcy settlement worth more than $4 billion which granted immunity from opioid lawsuits to members of the Sackler family who own the company that makes Oxycontin.

Ayesha Rascoe asks Des Moines city official SuAnn Donovan about an ongoing battle against bad odors in the city's downtown.

Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Harvard researcher Sam Kriegman about xenobots, the self-replicating robots he helped create.

NPR's David Folkenflik speaks to Shannon O'Neill about U.S.-Mexico relations after the revival of a U.S. policy that forces migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while their cases are being heard.

NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with scholar Helen Lenskyj about this weekend's Formula 1 Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia and the role of "sportswashing" in countries with human rights abuses.

NPR's David Folkenflik talks with Dr. Nirav Shah, director of Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about President Biden's new plans for COVID-19 testing as the omicron variant spreads.

Potter, a white former police officer, says she drew her gun by mistake when she fatally shot Wright, a Black motorist. Of the first 12 jurors seated, one identifies as Black and two as Asian.

Hugh O'Connell, a political reporter at the Irish Independent, talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about what Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament will mean for Ireland and Brexit.

Justices heard a case involving redistricting for the second time this term. This time, it was Democrats' turn to defend their plan.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to immigration lawyer Sarah Plastino about the Trump administration's plans to detain immigrant families and children longer than 20 days.

NPR's A Martinez speaks to Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) about her decision not to run for another term in the 2022 midterms.

What do the guilty verdicts of three men for killing Ahmaud Arbery mean for Brunswick, Georgia? NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Dr. John Perry, senior pastor of Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church.

You probably won't be testing everyone at your Thanksgiving table for COVID because the tests are expensive and hard to find. The federal government is partly to blame.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorneys Barry Scheck and David Shanies, who represented the two men exonerated this week for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Marcus Arbery, the father of Ahmaud Arbery, and attorney Ben Crump about the guilty verdicts reached in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud.

The residents of British Columbia, Canada, face more heavy rains while still recovering from a previous storm that caused widespread flooding and damage.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with actor Daniel Dae Kim, about his role in National Geographic's The Hot Zone: Anthrax., in which an FBI agent sets out to find who is sending letters laced with anthrax.

He was able to become one of nearly 30 people to receive a double lung transplant at UF Health since the start of the pandemic.

Ross May, the former associate director of FSU’s Family Institute, was among three FSU professors identified earlier this week who FSU had determined committed sexual misconduct in separate incidents with students.

Five people died during the Waukesha Christmas parade vehicle crash. They ranged in age from 52 to 81. Several of the victims were a part of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies.

Pianist and composer Jon Batiste was nominated in 11 categories, including Album of the Year. Read the full list of 2022 nominees.