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NPR looks at what is causing Missouri to have one of the slowest rates of administering COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., from a lack of government transparency to a decentralized distribution system.

A Department of Homeland Security memo says truckers protesting vaccine requirements are planning a potential disruption at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles and the State of the Union in Washington, D.C.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Cincinnati Inquirer sports columnist Paul Daugherty on Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown's role in the team's 33-year trek back to the Superbowl this Sunday.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with music critic Gerrick Kennedy, who has spent a lot of time researching and thinking about Whitney Houston's lasting legacy, about his book: Didn't We Almost Have it All.

Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda has died at age 93. Unlike most managers who move from team to team, Lasorda spent his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers. NPR remembers his life.

The latest pandemic relief package includes hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for small businesses. But for many companies, the money hasn't targeted one of their biggest overheads: rent.

Theologian Elaine Pagels has written Beyond Belief, The Secret Gospel of Thomas. The text of the gospel, discovered in 1945 in Egypt, paints a different vision of Jesus than do the Gospels that made it into the official biblical canon. Pagels speaks with NPR's John Ydstie.

Inflation is higher than people under 40 have seen. But their parents lived through sharper price hikes in the 1970s and '80s. These experiences are helping shape the way both view today's economy.

NPR's Liane Hansen talks to artist Peter Sis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. He wrote and illustrated a new book for young readers called The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin.

The new book Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World -- The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, tells the story of a physician who has treated countless impoverished patients. Dr. Farmer continues to fight for equity in healthcare for the world's poorest communities. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Tracy Kidder, the book's author.