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The former home run leader died last week at age 86, and was remembered as a caring — the kind person who cared as much for his community as he did for his sport. The funeral is Wednesday.

During a statewide phone call, Department of Health Secretary Scott Rivkees told hospitals they cannot use “second dose” vaccine supplies to give initial vaccinations to more people.

Since his death 30 years ago, NPR's Susan Stamberg hadn't heard her father's voice. She knew it was on a record somewhere in her home, so she went searching for it & found a reminder of her childhood.

Susan Stamberg marks Fathers Day by dusting off 78 rpm home recordings made in 1940 and later by her father. He's been dead three decades. She never had the heart to listen before, feeling his loss was still too near to deal with.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Jonah Goldberg, conservative columnist and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, about former President Trump's lingering populist influence on Republican lawmakers.

President Biden nominated Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The U.S. faces an eviction and housing affordability crisis — made worse by the pandemic.

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world."

European countries put more restrictive measures in place to control the spread of COVID-19. France has a strict overnight curfew, but the government says that's not enough to slow the virus down.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he has raised $1.8 million from merchandise featuring the image of him wearing his mittens on Inauguration Day. The proceeds are going to charitable organizations.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to writer and former George W. Bush administration official Christian Vanderbrouk, who says some in conservative circles advocated violence long before the Capitol attack.

Young, healthy researchers in the state are getting vaccinated before seniors even become eligible. Officials have decided all hospital employees belong in the first wave of vaccinations.

President Biden on Thursday is expected to sign two executive actions aimed at expanding access to health insurance and reproductive health care.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president's chief medical adviser and the U.S.'s top infectious disease expert, about the latest on the pandemic and current state of vaccinations.

The Commerce Department says the U.S. economy grew just 1% in the last three months of the year, as a rise in coronavirus infections weighed on in-person businesses like restaurants.

The governor tweeted about the “modest increase” from the federal government, but added that “supply remains a critical issue in vaccinating our 65 and older population.”

Homeland Security warns of threats from violent domestic extremists. A government report is expected to show significantly slower economic growth. GameStop stock is at unprecedent heights. Why?

The Department of Homeland Security is warning about the threat of an attack by domestic extremists. The department says the recent mob assault on the U.S. Capitol may have emboldened radical groups.

The gloves are off in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Newt Gingrich's surge to the front of the pack appears to have more staying power than any of the other challengers to Mitt Romney's standing as party favorite. And so, team Romney is firing back, for the first time, at a candidate other than President Obama.

There's no question that the Great Recession has meant hard times all around, but from 2007 to 2009, it sent black America into an economic tailspin. NPR's Robert Siegel travels to Atlanta to find out what those numbers mean in the lives of real people.

Last week, we asked listeners to submit their favorite winter songs, and our inbox was jammed in no time.

The supersize instrument tracks motion via cameras and creates tones and prerecorded sounds.

Boeing's 2020 earnings report shows financial losses at the company. But it may be turning a corner as various bans on its troubled 737 Max planes are lifted.

The actress seemed game for anything: She played a heartbroken lover in The Last Picture Show, a creepy housekeeper in Young Frankenstein and even competed on Dancing With the Stars.

Most of the oil and gas drilled in Wyoming comes from federal land and communities there are bracing for job losses and school funding cuts in the wake of a Biden administration pause on new leasing.

The Trump administration deported more than 1,400 parents without their children. President Biden has called the family separations "criminal" and pledged to create a task force to help reunite them.