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School vaccine mandates go back 200 years. They've defeated many legal challenges. Will they work for COVID?

In recent years, conversations around race and social justice have come to the fore. Trans-racial and trans-national adoptees share how it can be hard to express their thoughts about these issues.

The Vacancies Act says many temporary government appointees cannot remain in their posts after the 300th day of a president's first year in office.

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce later this week that it is authorizing boosters for people 18 or older, even if they aren't at risk for severe disease.

Thousands of migrants are camped along the border of Belarus and Poland, trapped between the countries. EU officials accuse Belarus of luring them across the border.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Richard Trenchard, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' representative in Afghanistan, about a worsening hunger crisis there.

Hospitals in Florida are in a tight spot. They will soon have to choose between obeying a federal rule requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated or a state law banning vaccine mandates.

Overo's "Another Year in Hell" is an exasperated thrust into Zoom-fatigued abyss.

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor talks about her recommendations for some new books by poets: Generations by Lucille Clifton, Two Murals by Jesus Castillo and The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim.

A gang leader in Haiti has called a week-long truce and says he will let vital gasoline trucks service stations around the country. Gas shortages have brought Haiti to a near halt.