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Three years after the U.S. military officially withdrew from Iraq, 2,000 U.S. troops are back restoring the old buildings they'd left behind and renewing former contacts with Iraqi officers.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Eva Galvez about the issue of vaccination hesitancy among the Latino community she serves in Oregon. Polling shows Latinos are less likely to trust a vaccine.

The first COVID-19 vaccines are being administered. There are, however, still great challenges ahead when it comes to making sure that people receive the vaccine sooner rather than later.

President-elect Joe Biden's election win was affirmed by the Electoral College on Monday. He travels to Georgia on Tuesday to campaign for Democratic Senate candidates in January runoffs.

Trump said he and Barr had a "very nice meeting" Monday and that their "relationship has been a very good one." Barr started out as a loyalist, but his relationship with the president frayed.

Electoral College votes to affirm Biden's election victory. Attorney General Barr is leaving the Justice Department. Plus, more shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine will be arriving across the U.S.

Each year, about 36,000 children in Florida are involuntarily committed for psychiatric evaluations under the state's Baker Act and disabled kids are becoming increasingly ensnared.

A sanitation company in Indiana took 32 porta-johns, and arranged then in rows, like a choir. And animated face on each one lip-syncs as Christmas classics play.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the U.S., and what Americans should expect in the coming weeks.

The federal workforce has often been pilloried by President Trump, but still there are far more applicants than there are federal jobs.

The FDA released detailed analysis of the vaccine ahead of a Thursday meeting of a group of independent experts that will advise the agency on whether to authorize the vaccine for emergency use.

Gaines wrote of the struggles of African Americans in rural Louisiana before the civil rights era. He wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men, and A Lesson Before Dying.

Stephen Easterbrook got a $42 million exit package after his relationship with an employee violated company policy. In 2018, he made 2,124 times more than the median income of a McDonald's employee.

His latest book contains over 500 photographs, a combination of images shot by Ringo himself and bits pulled from The Beatles' archives.

Quilty is a cat at the Friends for Life Shelter in Houston. The shelter wrote on Facebook that "Quilty will not be contained. And he has no shame." A video showing the cat's antics went viral.

Deadly protests in Iraq continue even after the country's prime minister agreed to step down. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to former Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S. Rend Al-Rahim.

Nonprofits and city planners are working to create more affordable housing, but they’re up against legislation that rewards rampant development.

The CDC reports suicide rates went down in 2019. But one group has been having an especially hard time: young Black people. And nobody is sure why.

The first COVID-19 vaccines are now being administered to front-line hospital workers across the country. The first widely publicized vaccination took place Monday in Long Island, N.Y.

Canada joins the United Kingdom and the United States as the first Western countries to provide the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, as the coronavirus pandemic rages toward winter.

As a 2021 Rhodes Scholar, Potes will study at the University of Oxford. His parents settled in Miami after fleeing Colombia when he was 4. He is a new graduate of Columbia University in New York.

Two days before a panel of experts is set to review Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine and advise the Food and Drug Administration, documents show the vaccine is 94% effective and well-tolerated.

After the members of a Mormon family were shot to death in Sonora, Mexico, this week, a relative of the victims says the rest of the community won't let drug violence drive them from the region.

The humorist has expanded his podcast series into a book of essays on the historical figures (and objects, like station wagons, and empires, like Prussia) that didn't get enough love the first time.

The drama Lionheart is the first film Nigeria has submitted for consideration for an Academy Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualified it because it's in English.