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SpaceX's most international crew of astronauts yet has arrived at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

With the end of the pandemic possibly approaching, young Americans are getting ready to make up for lost time and lost partying, much like their great-grandparents did a century ago.

A pause in the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will last at least another week, even as eligibility for coronavirus vaccines expand. What impact will the pause have on inoculations?

A Finnish computer scientist had a dream that a blackbird was speaking to her in human language. So she devised a computer program to transform the sounds of the human voice into birdsong.

The site had been offering the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine until the federal government recommended a pause earlier this week.

In the civil suit, Liberty University accuses its former president of breach of contract and fiduciary duty as well as statutory conspiracy. Falwell called it "full of lies and half truths."

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is reversing restrictions on the use of fetal tissue in medical research implemented under former President Trump.

The COVID-19 vaccine availability has made brick-and-mortar learning a more attainable goal for the upcoming fall semester.

Nine are dead after a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. Family members waited hours Friday morning for news of their loved ones at a nearby airport hotel. Police are seeking a motive.

The state is allocating more than $148 million to local governments for developing large-scale infrastructure projects to make communities more resilient to future disasters.

A generation of Cuban revolutionaries who seized power six decades ago is set to exit the stage, with Raúl Castro saying he will step down as head of the Cuban Communist Party.

Which communities could suffer most from the Johnson & Johnson vaccination pause? NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Dr. Paul Adamson, an infectious diseases fellow at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The Justice Department has secured its first guilty plea in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack investigation. A founding member of an anti-government militia group has pleaded guilty on two counts.

The Trump administration banned federal funding for scientific research on fetal tissue from abortions. The Biden administration is expected to reverse that.

Coronavirus cases are surging in Michigan. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Michigan's chief medical executive, about the state's decision not to implement new restrictions.

President Biden took questions from reporters after holding his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader since taking office, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

The sheer scale of the Biden agenda finds an analog in the early achievements of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. But which of those offers the better insight into what's happening now?

There was lots of good news on the economic front this week. Consumers are spending more money and fewer people are getting laid off.

Those who don't immediately stop for police are committing "contempt of cop. And bad officers will make you pay for that," law professor Paul Butler argues.

The police killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright has spurred seven nights of street protests in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Amid tear gas and grief, local organizers are stepping up.

After a big surge in gun deaths in 2020, high-profile mass shootings this spring are a reminder that America's epidemic of gun violence persists.

A fire spread from Table Mountain National Park to the University of Cape Town, where collections were destroyed at the Jagger Library.

Charlotte Jee of the MIT Technology Review speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about some of the ideas to make the internet more welcoming to women.

The U.S. and China say they will work together to tackle climate change. It's a rare display of cooperation amid an overall tense relationship.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with poet Samuel Getachew, former National Youth Poet Laureate finalist, about his favorite listener-submitted poems.