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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with South African health official Anban Pillay about challenges in COVID-19 vaccination in his country as wealthier countries lock up much of the world's vaccines.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with biologists Pardis Sabeti and Sharon Peacock about how genomic sequencing was used in the U.K. to trace a new coronavirus variant and what the U.S. can learn from it.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., about the move to impeach President Trump again after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The House of Representatives is voting on Wednesday to impeach President Trump for the second time, opening up fissures in the Republican Party over whether to stick with the president.

The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump for inciting violence. Trump became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting his plan to distribute vaccines to people 65 and older ahead of much of the country. But the rollout has had logistical problems, and there are still nursing homes and health care workers waiting to get the vaccine.

"I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with our Constitution," the vice president wrote on Tuesday evening.

In an exodus spurred by the pandemic, some high profile hedge funds, venture capital firms and tech companies are leaving New York and California for low-tax states, Florida and Texas.

Britain's National Health Service is said to be at breaking point, with twice as many COVID-19 patients in hospitals than there were during the worst weeks of the pandemic last April.

Scientists, public health experts and opposition politicians have raised questions about one of the two vaccines the country of 1.4 billion people has authorized for emergency use against COVID-19.

After President Trump baselessly called the results of Georgia's election "rigged," Georgia Republicans are trying to restore faith in the state's voting system.

Trump supporters who marched and rioted at the U.S. Capitol building last week are facing a powerful backlash — with consequences ranging from arrest to job losses to death threats.

President Trump on Tuesday made a quick trip to the southern border in Texas to highlight his immigration agenda, which he considers one of the major accomplishments of his presidency.

Publix locations in several counties across the state can now administer the coronavirus vaccine.

There are reports that ex-Michigan Gov. Snyder and others will be charged in relation to the crisis that began seven years ago. There is also word that a possible civil settlement in the works.

It would address the more than 200,000 jobs that have been lost in the state.

Officials say charges could be brought ranging from trespassing to felony murder.

Earthjustice said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to follow the rule-making process for transferring permitting authority used in Michigan and New Jersey.

The neurotoxin aldicarb is banned in about 100 countries, and is only one of 36 pesticides that the World Health Organization has called "extremely hazardous." It’s now allowed to be used on Florida oranges and grapefruits.

It's a stark contrast to what normally takes place during the initial round of committee hearings.

Republican lawmakers have been urging President Trump to condemn violence since a mob of extremists stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. As the House moved to impeach him, Trump called for calm.

Ugandans voters on Thursday are deciding between a man who has been in power for more than three decades and a singer turned politician who has galvanized the youth in the East African country.

President Trump has been impeached for the second time. The charge is inciting an insurrection. The article will now make its way to the Senate, which will not reconvene until next week.

A calico cat named Patches, who was presumed killed in a 2018 mudslide in Santa Barbara County, Calif., has turned up nearly three years later. The garage where Patches slept was destroyed.

Brooke Williamson, a celebrity chef in Los Angeles, explains how an order for a meal that would never be picked up, has led to hundreds of other acts of kindness: food for people in need.